Essay On Homelessness
Homelessness in the United States is still a tedious issue, that is slowly becoming better. 1 in 200 Americans, experenices homelessness and/or have lived in a shelter. About two thirds of homeless people stay in emergency shelters or in a transitional housing program. The other third live on the street, abandoned buildings or other places not suitable for human conditions. Homelessness is defined as an individual or family who lacks fixed, regular, and adequate residents. There are four categories of homelessness: Current homelessness, imminent homelessness, youth/family home instability caused by hardship, and home instability caused by domestic violence. More resources, volunteers, and donations are a great opportunity to help the homeless.
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Some personal characteristics can cause a person to be more at risk of being homeless, but there is no true discriminate, no one chooses to be homeless, hardship and situationation leave a person vulnerable. The most commonly affected members of society that are plagued by homelessness are elders, veterans, disabled, and minority persons. During the 1980s homelessness was at its highest percent, “A time when there was economic distress, high unemployment, and was the period when chronic homelessness became a societal problem” (McKinney, 2006, p. 1). There are two lengths of homelessness: chronic homelessness and short term homelessness. The thought of not knowing where one will sleep that night or when one will receive a meal is one of the most mind crippling effects of homelessness. Losing control of the smallest things, such as where to sleep is the hardest. Reports have concluded that the majority of people with family or children on the streets with them, state not having control and the power to determine whether their child will have a warm/dry place to sleep and food in their bellies, as one of the worst parts of being
Some personal characteristics can cause a person to be more at risk of being homeless, but there is no true discriminate, no one chooses to be homeless, hardship and situationation leave a person vulnerable. The most commonly affected members of society that are plagued by homelessness are elders, veterans, disabled, and minority persons. During the 1980s homelessness was at its highest percent, “A time when there was economic distress, high unemployment, and was the period when chronic homelessness became a societal problem” (McKinney, 2006, p. 1). There are two lengths of homelessness: chronic homelessness and short term homelessness. The thought of not knowing where one will sleep that night or when one will receive a meal is one of the most mind crippling effects of homelessness. Losing control of the smallest things, such as where to sleep is the hardest. Reports have concluded that the majority of people with family or children on the streets with them, state not having control and the power to determine whether their child will have a warm/dry place to sleep and food in their bellies, as one of the worst parts of being