This piece will introduce readers to the beginning of governments creating occurrences that cause homelessness before swooping to address the issue. Battling the epidemic of homelessness takes more than protesting and marching. An issue with “advocates” is that many lack the education on homelessness history. A proposal to end homelessness is laughed at by many individuals in government positions, especially when “chumps” are sent to verbalize a stance they know nothing about.
Let me be clear: this article is not about immigration. Please read outside the box of this opinion piece. Here’s where the history of homelessness begins.
Homelessness began as consequence of the first census in 1790, when the government decided human beings were commodities.
Castle Garden, located in Battery Park, Manhattan evolved into an open port for collecting data on human beings who had no place to go. During the 1850s and 1860s, this island expanded into an immigration processing station and with its growth the homeless populations in places like tent communities and shanty towns changed. What could have been promised to those entering the states no longer existed because of the questionable conditions upon arrival.
I hear complaints about immigrants all the time, but not the matter of immigration being a business for all governments as immigration is an import and export between countries. Bilateral trade is an important concept to understand to recognize how homelessness is an automatic construct. As human beings our demographics work to the benefits of governments. Each human being (migrant) can increase or decrease demand between the United States of America and foreign countries through their immigration (migration).
No matter the era of origin, homelessness thrives off profitable and contextual cycles such as government programs. Timelines for homelessness started far before arrivals entered the borders of New York City. It did not matter how each human being was processed, whether the coordinator (agent) was illiterate or an immigrant themselves; homelessness thrived.
Some human beings’ purpose of transport may have been under the false guise of a promised land in the United States. Maybe their home country had no means for growth, e.g.,crops and farms.
Can you acknowledge the difference among homelessness, slavery, and propaganda within our vulnerability for successful dignity? There is forced homelessness within communities that have withstood all of the Great Depression, migration and other contextual factors that is human gestation.
Who is at fault for homelessness?
Invisible Prophet is an artist/vendor with Street Sense Media.
