San Antonio's utter disregard for the homeless and impoverished Sleeping in a cramped studio apartment with six or even seven other people, or worse yet, sleeping in the sewer; These are the major problems faced by millions of Americans every day. Especially in our city of San Antonio the problems of poverty and homelessness are rampant. The poor are regarded by the middle and upper classes as second-class citizens. Policies are often adopted that create hardship or even seriously harm the poor. Although San Antonio has several programs to help the homeless and impoverished, the city has demonstrated time and again that it does not care as much as it should about helping those in need; also actively trying to sabotage the poor and individuals. Anna Quindlen, famous writer and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, writes "Our tired, our poor, our children". The essay offers a window into the lives of poor citizens in our country and how families struggle to survive in this system. Families struggle to survive on the little state assistance they receive. The quality and space in a shelter or even government-provided housing is atrocious and, to be honest, borderline unlivable. Quindlen describes a family of six crammed into a single bedroom, an unforgivable and terrible way to live and yet better than nothing (332). Children of families who have to live in situations like this grow up without knowing stability or security. Quindlen, conveying the feelings of the children living in these quarters: “The older kids can't wait to get out of this” and “It's humiliating, living here” (332). These kids are poverty stricken and want nothing more than to have their own. When he distributed hot, home-cooked meals to the homeless one night in April 2015, just as he has done for the past fifteen years, Cheever was fined $2,000. to be an example of. (Garcia 2015). San Antonio police are trying to dissuade the benefactors. San Antonio police are confused. For some reason the police see homelessness as a problem that needs to be solved, but it is just that; the problem is the homeless and not the people who are homeless. Instead of trying to prevent homelessness from becoming a problem, we should eliminate the problem at its root, we should fight it