Homelessness/ Service Leanring

553,742 homeless people live on the streets in the United States. The most homeless population seen in the United States is in New York City, with a total number of 76,501 homeless people. Now in those 553,742 homeless people around 20%-25% have a mental health issue. Homelessness is a very big issue in the United States and due to how we vote we can help these poor people out. Did you know, when the homeless become homeless they usually take 1-3 years to get back on there feet and get out of the cycle.  Now a question we all ask ourselves is can the homeless vote? Well of course anyone who is a citizen in the United States can vote but need to follow the guidelines that the states have in place to be able to vote. Some guidelines that are state wide is that the homeless need to have an address in the city they are voting in. The states usually allow for the addresses to be located at a shelter, at a park, etc. While doing my research we saw a homeless lady who lived in New York. She talked about how she was homeless and how she voted every time voting season was around. The video I believe opened our eyes to show that you can be living off the streets and still care on issues that are going on in there city. Interesting fact is that most homeless are very smart due to reading news papers they can pick off the streets. Did you know that newspaper are one of the best ways to get informed on what's going on in your city and also what's going on in the Government.  Another question we ask ourselves is that can people with mental issues vote? The state does limit this group more for example they limit people with psychiatric disabilities. The others who have mental illness without the above mentioned disability have the opportunity to vote and can bring a partner to help them vote. In our Service learning session we help the Manny Diaz campaign. This campaign was a Republican based campaign in the race for our state senators. For the 10 hours we went around the beautiful city of Hialeah and some outskirt cities and asked people if they were going to be voting and encouraging people to vote this election. On some of our stops we had some rude people that blew us off and we had those that supported what we were doing. Another activity that we participated in was making phone calls. We did the exact same thing as mentioned before but on the phone instead. I had some interesting phone calls to say the least. I was surprised to see that the people we called really had not yet researched the people running for office with only a week left before voting started. To conclude I believe that my group did a great job educating the citizens on the pros and cons of the participants running. Again as stated in the last project this group has been one of the best groups I have ever been in any class.