User:Alyssagpp/Choose an Article

Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article title: Homelessness in the San Fransisco Bay Area
Article Evaluation: adding to the subsection Current efforts to address the issue by region: article title"Homeless Street Outreach"
Sources: Homelessness in the United States by state#California; Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2013; Homeless Bill of Rights; Housing Act 1996; Anti-homelessness legislation

Article title
Homeless advocacy
Article Evaluation: A little more closely related to my PE, would be interesting to explore what methods of advocacy are provided by the government/policy and what kinds of organizations are stepping up to represent these under-represented groups
Sources: The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty; Homeless Bill of Rights; Category:Homeless shelters in the United States; Rapid Re-Housing; Supportive housing

Article title
Homelessness and co-occuring disorders
Article Evaluation: Interesting topic especially in the sense that it debunks a lot of myths about homelessness and mental health but is also eye-opening to learn about how declining health and the condition of homelessness are self-perpetuating
Sources: Homeless dumping; Homelessness and mental health

Article title: Homelessness and the Built Environment
Article Evaluation: This is the article that would be the most interesting for me to write- it wouldn't be a part of the wikiproject for homelessness but seeing that homelessness is a product of a lack of affordable housing, it is extremely interesting to me to see how our current built environment accommodates for unhoused individuals and how alternative forms of temporary or ad-hoc housing is created in urban areas. There seem to be a great deal of sources both on wikipedia and google scholar, but it seems as if these things have yet to be compiled into one comprehensive article.
Sources: Hostile architecture; Tent city; Pavement dwellers; IKozie micro-home; Housing First; Supportive housing; Shanty town