If you are homeless and you live in an urban area in the United States, you are a criminal.  It doesn’t matter whether you have ever stolen anything, whether you have hurt or threatened anyone, whether you have vandalized anything or not, you are a criminal.  Because simply living in...

Wikipedia article on Dehumanization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization Description of Dehumanization: http://www.deathreference.com/Da-Em/Dehumanization.html The psychologist who created the Stanford Prison Experiment talks about how we can do evil things to each other: http://lucifereffect.com/dehumanization.htm Video of Police cutting up tents of homeless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrPdZmPB36U&feature=related Homeless Evicted from Tent City in Sacramento: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3583155434947566213&ei=-Di2SN7IKaSyqAOJn4C-DA&q=homeless&vt=lf Hate crimes against the homeless—press conference: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-234498057173364594&ei=SkW2SPOTAo3CqAO_gdHKDA&q=homeless

How do we end the cycle of dehumanization for the homeless? How can we get our communities to see that the homeless should have the right to sleep, eat and receive benefits, just like everyone else? The answer to so many community issues, is, once again found within ourselves. Below...

What is Rehumanization? It is to be involved in bringing a marginalized group into the sphere of “normal” in society. In every society we have groups that we consider “different but acceptable”. This is the process that for the African Americans the Civil Rights movement did much to progress. Other...

Being homeless means being part of an alternative society. There are many aspects of homelessness in our society, including: Homeless families. There are families on the street, sometimes with just a mom, sometimes just a dad, sometimes with both parents. Usually these are families who have fallen on hard times,...

Myths and Facts about Homelessness: A statistical analysis Although a large percent of the U.S. population are homeless every year (about 1 percent of the general population), the pocket of people who become homeless are almost all in the lower or working classes. Thus the majority of the people in...

Just the Facts: Statistics About Homelessness and Related Subjects The number of people in the U.S. who were in poverty in 2005: 38,231,521 The percentage of those people who were children: 36% The estimated number of people in the U.S. who are homeless for any period of time in a...