Case Study Homelessness

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Irvine is a considered one of the richest city in the Orange County. 65% of the its residents are college graduates, and it boasts a median home value of $740,000 according to the data provided by Los Angeles Times. This demonstrates that the residents of Irvine are mostly wealthy and educated. Respectively, Irvine is placed the 20th in Time’s list of best places to live in 2016 in the U.S. These evidence justify the absence of homeless people on UCI’s campus or on the streets in the city of Irvine as homeless people exhibits a sense of poverty and hardship. Besides the wealth status of Irvine, the city’s vigorous fight on homeless presence also explains the scarcity of homeless people in Irvine. According to the Los Angeles Times, when …show more content…
Furthermore, choice is the act of selecting or making decision when faced with more than one possibility. The stakeholder in this case is the homeless people. According to Professor Avery, it is very usual that the Irvine residents, who hold a strong opposition towards residence of homeless people in the city, call on the cops so that they would arrest and take the homeless people away. Then, the cops would send them to the homeless shelters in the nearby city Santa Ana as there are no homeless settlement in Irvine. In addition to the availability of shelters in Santa Ana, the infamous Santa Ana River Trail hosts as many as one thousand homeless individuals. As a homeless person, one of the choices presented to him or her is to live in the dedicated shelters or tent encampments without disturbance in Santa Ana. The alternative choice is to live in Irvine that a has better environment but with the risk of getting arrested by the police officials and get sent elsewhere. Correspondingly, this prospect discourages homeless individuals from choosing to reside in Irvine. Since most homeless are impoverished and cannot afford a car or even gasoline, it is difficult for a homeless person who had been sent to Santa Ana to travel a great distance back to Irvine. Hence, the homeless people are more likely to choose the first option and not reside in Irvine, and this analysis on the choice aspect of the homeless people explains the absence of them in