Homelessness, Why Is It Rising? By, Elizabeth Bock, Indiah Lockett, and Xaimen Lopez January 5th, January 15, 2015 Technology Access Foundation Academy

Why this experiment? Need for the Study Homelessness involves people who don’t have a home and have no money. A lot of people talk about homelessness, how to help the people, how they are treated, and how to prevent it. We don’t usually think about why the homeless population has grown. We wanted to know why it has increased and why isn’t it decreasing. How is it different from other experiments? Our experiment is different from other experiments because we focus on what happened in history that made the homeless percentage rise. We noticed that other groups that focused on the homeless didn’t do a research based project, but we are. We also noticed that they weren’t focusing on when homelessness started rising.

Driving Question and Hypothesis Our driving question is: What are the underlying causes of the increase of the homeless population in America in the past few years? Our hypothesis is: Our hypothesis is that we think people are becoming homeless because of drugs, physical, mental disabilities, and financial hardship.

Timeline was when when the Great Depression began and in 1943 it ended.The percentage of unemployment rose to 25% and the people had no jobs so they couldn’t pay for food and housing. So they became homeless. (PBS, n.d.) (Garraty, 1986) The percentage of the homeless could not be found through this time period. The WW2 ended in 1945 and Great Depression in 1943 which decreased and increased the population of homeless people. (World History, n.d.) The percentage of homeless in 1954 s In 1953 the Korean War ended and the veterans came back from the war and it was hard to find work. In 1983 homelessness has risen because a lot of the hospitals for mentally ill people closed down.. more than 578,424 people were homeless throughout 2012 and T he homeless population of 2010 is 649,917.Homelessness in the United States is an area of concern for social service providers, government officials, policy professionals, and society at large. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in January 2012 annual point-in-time count found that 633,782 people across America were homeless. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The elderly that went homeless from these years went from 11.2 percent to 32.3 percent. (William, 2010) After the psychiatric patients were sent to regular hospitals because the state had a problem and after awhile the regular hospitals kicked them out. so then a lot of people became homeless and they were mentally (Feldman S, June 1983).

Method ●For our research we first started with trying to figure out reasons why people are homeless in ●During this research we went deep on those causes. After this we tried to figure out what year had the least amount of homeless people in the USA and why. ●Then we looked at a timeline and noticed that in 1929 the homeless population started to rise.

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Analysis and Conclusion Analysis: ●Through our research we found a couple big events that caused the homeless population to rise. ○Great Depression ○Mental Hospitals closed down, it was hard for veterans to get help 1983 Conclusion: We have found that our hypothesis is connected to our our conclusion. We predicted that one of the causes was mental health and that was one of answers, when the mental hospital closed down that caused a lot mentally ill people to be on the streets. The Great Depression was the main cause of homelessness rising, when it rose it didn’t fully get back on track.

Evaluation and Future Implications What advice would we give to a scientist who wanted to redo our experiments? We would say to take your time looking through sites and make sure they are reliable. I would also say to make sure you are staying on task because it is very easy to get distracted. Write down data while you collect it. How could our experiment be improved and extended? To improve we will take our time to finish, we would extend our time by 4 months or more. We also should have found more updating sites and kept notes of what we found already. What would we expect from a professional doing a study on our topic? If someone professional was to study our topic we would expect them to read history books about our topic so that it would be easier and more helpful to find information about our topic.

Our Variables Independent variable What we don’t keep the same is the websites that we use to research. Dependent variable Trying to find out why homelessness has increased here in America. Controlled variable What we keep the same. ●Research ●Questions ●Method

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