San Antonio's total disregard for the homeless and poorSleeping in a cramped one-room apartment with six or even seven other people, or worse, sleeping in the gutter; These are major issues facing millions of Americans every day. Especially in our city of San Antonio, the problems of poverty and homelessness are endemic. The poor are considered second-class citizens by the middle and upper classes. It is often the case that policies are developed that inconvenience or even seriously harm the poor. Although San Antonio has several programs to help the homeless and poor, the city has shown time and time again that it does not care as much as it should about helping the needy; even actively trying to sabotage the poor and individuals. Anna Quindlen, famous and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, writes “Our Weary, Our Poor, Our Children.” The essay provides a window into the lives of our country's poor citizens and how families struggle to survive in this system. Families are simply struggling to survive with the little government assistance they receive. The quality and space in a shelter or even government provided housing is atrocious and, to be frank, bordering on unlivable. Quindlen describes a family of six crowded into a single room, an inexcusable and terrible way of living and yet better than nothing at all (332). Children from families who have to live in situations like this grow up without knowing stability and security. Quindlen, conveying the feelings of the children who live in these dwellings: “The older children can't wait to get out of this one” and “He is humiliated to live here” (332). These children are poverty-stricken and want nothing more than to have their own. When she distributed hot homemade meals to homeless people one evening in April 2015, as she has done for fifteen years, Cheever was fined $2,000 for which she must make a example. (Garcia 2015). San Antonio police are trying to dissuade anyone who would do good. San Antonio police are mixed up. For some reason, the police see the homeless as a problem that needs to be solved, but that's it; the problem is the homeless, not the people who are homeless. Instead of trying to prevent homelessness from becoming a problem, we should kill the problem at its source, we should fight