Social Sciences: The National Alliance To End Homelessness (Essay Sample)

The National Alliance to end homelessness
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The name of the organization is the national alliance to end homelessness. It is located in 1518 K street North West Washington DC. The organization is aimed at ending homeless and preventing it.
All in all the organization is a nonprofit making venture and which is also nonpartisan .Its mission is the aforementioned one with its focus and operation on the United States. This it does it by ensuring that policies are developed, ensuring that there is capacity building and by educating leaders on homelessness on America. The organization also does independent research which it provides to policy makers and other stake holders in terms of housing.
The organization supports the local community via collaboration with different sectors ranging from public, non- profit sector etc. the programs are all aimed at terminating homelessness among communities. This is in addition to provision of data and other crucial information to policy makers and stakeholders in the housing sector to prevent homelessness. Notably the organization has spread its influence across American communities.
The majority of the homelessness in America is the minorities notably the African Americans. Thus by its mission statement of eradication of homelessness in amerce, it helps in influencing policies thus meeting more than one theme of our discussion. These include those of class inequality reduction and ensuring that all people have shelter thus at least equal treatment of the people of different races. This is because homelessness though suffered by minorities some sections of white people are also homeless. The same idealism is espoused by Rothenberg.
The organization work are pivotal in ensuring all people are equal with at the very least a place to call home. In addition it trains communities on how to resolve social issues relating to housing and via this it does not discriminate against any racial grouping in its work. This is contrast to the racial segregation we for example saw covered by ARC on the blatant racism on American public schools (ARC, 2000).
I learned that this organization is a positive means to eradication of racial and inequality in the American society. The organization goals premised on volunteerism are crucial in ensuring equality though inertia is real for example the organization depen...