One of life's rarest treasures is human selfless charity. The greatest thing in the world is mutual understanding and the infinite feeling of appreciation for having a Home. A place that each of us must have: where a happy and loving family can be born, where love, support and acceptance, whatever happens, are always there, and where kindness, warmth and understanding are sincere and they never fade away. I think those of us who have homes should consider ourselves extremely lucky, because we are blessed. The house – the roof and the walls – protects us from external pressures and gives strength and will to live, which is the important moral basis of a psychologically healthy human being. But what about those who don't have it? The ones we call Homeless? Unfortunately, there's always a dark cloud in a blue sky, and in "Are the Homeless Crazy?" Jonathan Kozol questions the root cause of homelessness in the United States. Are the homeless really “paranoid of the streets” and “among the most difficult to help?” When I read “Are the Homeless Crazy?” I was amazed by the clarity and skill with which the writer shows the reality, conditions and causes of homelessness by presenting an impressive array of statistics and showing the number of homeless children. The author writes: “nearly half of the homeless are young children whose average age is six” and “since 1968 the number of children living in poverty has grown by 3 million” (463). He uses statistics to show the level of federal support for low-income housing, which “dropped from $30 billion (1980) to $7.5 billion (1988),” average rents, declining social benefits for families with children, the loss of traditional manufacturing jobs, “2 million every year since 198…… middle of paper……attempts by homeless people to overcome poverty and destitution must be listened to and valued. People need society's response to their unbearable and intolerable living conditions. Kozol makes it clear to everyone that nothing will be solved until everyone is understood. Let's just imagine what would happen if we were in those people's places, without a place to live and in total destitution. Will we ask for help? I think that people cannot be degraded to the level of mad beasts; they do not have to humiliate themselves and their families to ask for and accept official charity. I firmly believe that they may desperately beg for Dei gratia but not that society deigns to help. It's not too much to want to have a Home. And it's not a crime to have it. Works Cited Kozol, Jonathan. “Are the homeless crazy?” Yale Review, 1988.