Graditude - Homelessness

there is a much more deeper thing going on in the homelessness issue then meets the eye

Homelessness

Homeless ness I a huge Epidemic that is something that is not just in one City one community one area it is all Over.

The biggest issue is that there is NO WHERE FOR PEOPLE to go.

What is the true problem?

Gentrification – where they build up the city around the people raise the coast of living because the fact that the people no can no longer afford to live there it is broken down,

Business have to shut down (can’t afford to work in those areas)

Big business buys out those businesses and raise the rent

Due to the new corporations they build new homes,

Bring the property value up in the poor areas and the poor that were just getting by where they were no can’t make ends meet and they get kicked out there home

Once they are out of their homes they

Go to sections 8

The list is 8 years long

Some city can take them on the list but this list is still MONTHS to Years out

Family will take them in but for a moment

They over stay there welcome and Get kicked out (took to long for them to get housing)

They go to the shelters (shelters are full to capacity for all the ones that were put out before them)

So they end up not only in the street but some even end up sleeping in the subway, just to stay warm

There is a problem because the people are being moved out and “rich yuppies” are moving in toing it into a watered down boring area and making it hard for even the people that were living there it live in the transition.

But there is hope

Because god is working and it says in ‘the word’

Leviticus 25New International Version (NIV) The Sabbath Year

o 32 “‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess. 33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. 34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

o 35 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interestor any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

o 39 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves. 40 They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors. 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. 43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

o 44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

o 47 “‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, 48 they retain the right of redemptionafter they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them: 49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves. 50 They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years. 51 If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly. 53 They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

o 54 “‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, 55 for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.