Homelessness is global issue large number of population is suffering from this condition.
As in Wikipedia
"Homelessness is the condition of people without a permanent dwelling, such as a house or apartment. People who are homelessare most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing. "
An article published in the guardian Ms Melanie Onn is telling her story as
Onn, 38, lived on two local estates, and describes herself as “born and bred social housing”. She has also experienced youth homelessness. Aged 17, while living with her aunt, they had a falling out, and she ended up turning to local charity Doorstep for support. It provides accommodation for 16 to 25-year-old in Grimy and neighboring Cleethorpes. “They put me in a house with girls of a similar age, who’d had similar family breakdowns. It was a lifesaver, because it was a really tense situation,” Onn recalls.
As article published in the questia.com
Homelessness, widely perceived as a societal problem only beginning in the 1980s. Figures for the number of homeless people in the United States are imprecise, but it was estimated that 700,000 people were homeless per night in the late 1990s and 610,000 per night in the early 2010s. A survey made in 1994 found that 12 million Americans had experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. The vast majority of those who are homeless consists of single men and families with children. The problem exists in all major cities and many smaller communities.
Causes of homelessness
The causes range from
large-scale institutionalization of mentally ill people to disintegration of the social fabric in minority communities,
drug and alcohol abuse,
relatively stagnant wages at lower income levels,
cutbacks in federal social-welfare programs,job loss,
reductions in public housing, and rent increases and real-estate speculation.
Among the efforts to reduce chronic homelessness, which involves people with disabling behavioral or health conditions who experience repeated or prolonged periods of homelessness, is the Housing First program, which emphasizes placing in homeless into housing with some support before requiring. for example, treatment for addiction; the program represents a reversal of the typical earlier approach.
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