Collected Item: “Homeless and Homes”
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Homeless and Homes
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Article
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This article reports that they are over 17 million empty homes in the United States which greatly outnumbers the amount of homeless people in the country. The article then goes on to describe the location and other demographics of where these homes are. I wanted to include this article because it shows that we have the resources for people to not be homeless during the pandemic but there seems to be no incentive or interest in addressing this problem. The number of homes is so much greater and it could greatly mitigate some of the health and exposure issues homeless populations experience. This will allow me to show how homeless people are traditionally not even considered in resources.
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#HST494, #Homes, #Homeless, #United States
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https://247wallst.com/housing/2019/09/30/there-are-over-17-million-vacant-homes-in-america/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Douglas A. McIntyre
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2019