ข้อสอบเอ็นทรานซ์ ภาษาอังกฤษ มีนาคม 2548

WASHINGTON, DC-In Milwaukee, a church has been declared a public  nuisance 

for feeding homeless people and allowing them to sleep there. In Gainesville, police 

threatened University of Florida students with arrest if they did not stop serving meals 

to homeless people in a public park. In Santa Barbara, it is illegal to lean against the 

front of a building or store, and no one can park a motor home on the street in one 

place for more than two hours. These ordinances and activities demonstrate the in-

creasingly hostile attitude in the United States toward people who are homeless,

according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless that was released 

today. This report examines occurrences since January 2002 and documents civil 

rights violations perpetrated against people experiencing homelessness.



Currently, there are over two million homeless people in America. A recent congres-

sional study predicts that nearly  19  million people will face the prospects of homelessness 

in America in the next 15 years. In New York City, the coalition for the homeless 

estimates that 100,000 homeless live in New York State, and of that number 70,000 

reside in New York City, With the highest unemployment rates in almost a decade, 

more people are becoming homeless, and as the economy continues to tighten, it is 

causing financial crises for shelters and service-providing agencies Though nearly all 

cities still lack sufficient shelter beds and social services, many continue to pass laws 

prohibiting people experiencing homelessness from sleeping outside.



Almost 70 % of the cities surveyed in the first report have passed at least one or more 

new laws specifically targeting homeless people since January 2002, making it in-

creasingly difficult to survive on the streets. Further, this report finds Las Vegas, San 

Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta to be the top five “meanest” 

cities in the United states for poor and homeless people to live in ; California is the 

“meanest” state, followed by Florida as the second “meanest.”