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Homeless Children in New York

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The "Invisible Child" article is about a family living in a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. It's a tragic story which shows results of shameful inequality. The shelter the family lives in is "a place where mold creeps up walls and roaches swarm, where feces and vomit plug communal toilets, where sexual predators have roamed and small children stand guard for their single mothers outside filthy showers." "It is no place for children," but 280 children live there - 280 of the 22,000 homeless children in New York. Dasani, an 11-year-old girl who is the main character in the article, provides much of the care for her younger siblings because both her mother and stepfather are unemployed and drug-addicts. The circumstances in which Dasani lives is the result of a family dysfunction, and also a product of government policies. The main argument of the article is how public institutions have tried to assist homeless people, and have often fallen far short of their needs, causing them to move into shelters, it also mentions the economic disparities that exist in Fort Greene and the city, with wealthy New Yorkers living alongside desperately poor ones. Evidence used to support the first argument is the decline in affordable housing and in jobs that pay a living wage, which have weakened as the city reorders itself around the whims of the wealthy. To support the second argument is Part 3 which talks about Dasani's mother stopping at a wine store's evening tasting with her kids. It depicts the sorts of extravagances that high-income New Yorkers enjoy, which seem far less normal and guiltless through the eyes of Dasani. The stakeholders in the article are Dasani and her family and all homeless people. The institution being affected is the Auburn homeless shelter. This article dates back to September 2012 and has developed over time by the author Andrea Elliott. After doing some background research I found out that the city began recording shelters p

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