Anootated Bibliography

My question is how to help the homeless and not only how many homeless there are but also how the summers here in Phoenix hurt them. I found numerous sites that talked about a couple of years ago when it was extremely hot and quite a few homeless people died because of the heat. I mainly focused on that because some websites said how there just wasn’t enough shelters and how awful that theses deaths could have been prevented if there was adequate shelter. I did seem to have a hard time finding statistics about how many homeless people there are in the Phoenix area. I found a website that talked about homeless people in general and the statistics but that website wasn’t very reliable. I did eventually find one accidentally because it was talking about how the heat killed so many homeless and then it went into statistics.
I did search the databases and I found a couple but not a lot about homeless in the Phoenix area just about the homeless in general. I also couldn’t find too much about the lack of shelters here but I did manage to find a website that does talk about how many shelters there are. Most of the sites I did find I did a Google search on them and that were the most successful of all the searches. The research I did for this assignment did take a lot longer then I thought it would take. I just thought there would be quite a few things about the plight of the homeless. But what I did find was a lot of sources I didn’t think were very reliable and I did put a couple of them in there that I wouldn’t use. I did find a blog about how this person felt about the homeless and I put that in the annotated bibliography but I won’t be using that in the final paper.
I do have a couple of sites that I didn’t include in the bibliography because I found them after I had finished the bibliography. One talks quite a bit about the homeless in the Phoenix area and the other is about unclaimed lottery winnings. I had been thinking about if I want more shelters, where would the money come from and I began to think about all the unclaimed lottery winnings and what happens to it. So I found on the lottery website what does happen with it and will include it in the final paper about how some of that money could go into building more shelters and helping the homeless get back on their feet.
I am glad I chose this subject even though it was harder then I thought it would be trying to find research on it. I found out about how some people feel about the homeless that really isn’t true. I also found that there are a lot of people who do care and do help them any way they can but more needs to be done. It seems that this is a problem that isn’t going away and things do need to change.


Anthony, Joe “Homeless Die in Arizona Heat Wave.” World Socialist Web Site.

26, July 2005. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/heat-j26.shtml.

This article talks about how in 2005, 21 people died most of them homeless from the heat. It also says that this would not have happened if there would have been more shelters available for them to stay at. Also that the situation should be taken seriously if people want to stop this from happening again.

This author seems to know what he is talking about he talks some about statistics not just his personal view of the subject. The only thing is I couldn’t find anything about this author to see what other works he has done. This article is two years old but the situation is still a problem that really has not been resolved. So I think this information is still prevalent to use now. The author reviews different things for this website but he does seem to know what he is talking about.

“At Least 41 People Die In Western U.S. Heat wave.” Terra Daily News. 26, July 2005

http://www.terradaily.com/news/weather-05zw.html

In this article it talks about how the homeless are dying in this terrible heat wave. The homeless aren’t finding water, they either can’t afford to buy water or they can’t even find drinking fountains. This heat is also burning their feet because quite a few doesn’t even have shoes.

There is no author on this but I have found several articles from terradaily news that sound credible to me. This article is a couple of years old but the heat wave and the homeless are still here so to me this seems relevant still. It shows how terrible this is for the homeless and helps give an overview of how terrible this is.

“Arizona Heat Wave Kills 18.” Fox News.Com. 21, July 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163184,00.html

This one not only states how the heat is killing the homeless but how homeless shelters are opening their doors during the day to help people get out of the heat. They talk to a guy who sleeps by the canal to help keep him cool. It also gives statistics on how many homeless there are.

There is no author on this one but Fox News is a pretty reliable source. Again this article is a couple of years old but this topic never gets old so it is still relevant with how the homeless are affected by the heat.

Broder, John M. “Ferocious Heat Maintains Grip Across the West. (National Desk).”

The New York Times (July 23, 2005: A1 (L). InfoTrac OneFile Thomson

Maricopa County Community College. 27 Mar. 2007 http://find.galegroup.com

This one talks about how people are trying to help the homeless in the heat. People from Social Services are handing out bottled water to the homeless. It also talks about how some homeless are actually refusing to go into the shelters because some are drug users or are mentally ill.

John Broder has done several articles for The New York Times so he seems to be pretty reliable. This article seems relevant to what I am doing it discusses how people are helping the homeless and how some don’t even want to be helped. This site also gives you references to other sources that talk about the homeless as well.

“Homeless Statistics.” http://www.homeless-people.info/

This article just talks about how many homeless there are in the U.S. It also shows how many shelters there are and how many homeless children there are as well. Also it talks about how the numbers increase each year.

There is no author at all on this article. I really don’t think this would be a reliable source for statistics. All I could find was the website no publisher and not even a date for the article and it doesn’t really say how they got the numbers as well. For me this website probably wouldn’t be a very reliable source.

“Impact: Many Homeless Die In Arizona Heat.” The America’s Intelligence Wire

(July 26, 2005): NA. InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Maricopa County

Community College. 27 Mar.2007 http://find.galegroup.com/itx/infomark

This article not only talks about the heat but how the police department is trying to help the homeless as well. But that there is no law to force the homeless into shelters even if it is only for their own good. It also goes into how a lot of people think that the homeless are drug addicts or mentally ill and don’t want help and it isn’t the case in all situations.

This is also from Fox News Channel so it would seem that it would be a reliable source as well. The article is from 2005 but the date isn’t that old and the situation is still an ongoing problem. This article for me would help me in finding how not only the heat is affecting homeless but other people’s attitude about the homeless.
Mehta, Shreema “Homeless Dying with No Escape from Record Heat.” The New

Standard. 27, July 2006. http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3466.


In this article he talks about not only about how people are dying from the heat but also how during the day some are kicked out of shelters. He says how there is a misconception that they should be kicked out during the day to find jobs but when it is so hot out and no shelter they just die. It also talks about how people see them trying to get shade and people complain and make them move and that changes need to be made to stop people from dying.

The author is a staff journalist who is specialized in hard news coverage of US issues and events. This person does seem to know what he is talking about and he has done several well done articles that I have found. He brings up really good points about how the homeless are ignored and the misconceptions about them.

Shaffer, Mark. “In Arizona’s Outlying Areas Homeless Find Little Shelter.” The Arizona

Republic 26, August 2006.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0822ruralhomeless0822.html

This Article talks about how in the rural areas the homeless have even less shelters. It also gives statistics on the homeless and how in increases. Also they have about traveling homeless trying to find shelters in the rural areas but there isn’t that many to find. The article also goes on to say how Arizona is trying to help the homeless but grant money is hard to get.

The author Mark Shaffer has done several articles for The Arizona Republic so he seems to be a reliable source as well. The date also is only a year old so that is good as well. This article would be helpful in helping to write about the homeless it has good useful information not only about the homeless but how Arizona is really trying to help.

“Social Services Providers Call For More Homeless Shelters”.

Arizona Daily Star. 3, August 2005. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/87025 .

This one talks about how social services are trying to help the homeless and especially help them in the summer time. Also how the state is trying to get more money to put into the shelters and those private and corporate donations is helping as well.

There is no author for this article but it is from the Arizona Daily Star and it is a local paper from Tucson. So this article would be from a reliable source as well. The date is from 2005 so maybe not the most updated article but still has some useful information that could help with my paper.

Shireman, Richard. “Homeless Myths Diminish us and Them.” St Pebersburg Times.

28, March 2007.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/03/28/Neighborhoodtimes/Homelessmyths_dimini.shtm

This article talks about how people think that most homeless people don’t even want help and seem really annoyed about homeless in general. But how the way people are thinking is just not true that most people really do want help but they are ashamed to even ask for help or even afraid.

Richard Shireman has done several articles for St. Petersburg Times and he has done several about the homeless. So I would definitely think he knows what he is talking about and would be a good reliable source. The date is just from a couple of days ago, this is very recent which is good as well. I also like how it gives you the homeless point of view as well.