HOMELESSNESS

Homelessness



Homelessness

Introduction

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stated that country is now passing through worst-case housing needs period at an all-time high rate. However, few public and private agencies see reductions in chronic homelessness conditions prevailing across country. Homelessness is increasing in families having large family size and considerable low income below poverty threshold. This family segment is the rapidly increasing segment of homeless population. Homelessness is not an inherent concept; different factors contribute towards to the increasing homelessness issues.

Statistics

America is home to people belonging from diverse cultures. The different cultures have given rise to the formation of communities, each distinguished through a peculiar set of traditional values they practice. Homelessness is one such a problem that has always posed a great challenge both for the communities and the government. This paper highlights the importance of the problem and the need to address this issue in the context of women living in shelter homes and facing acute mental health dilemmas. This paper also presents a tentative action plan to solve this daunting problem.

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Causes of homelessness

Homelessness is not caused due to a set of factors related to financial matters and economic conditions only. A series of factors adjoins the basis of creating homelessness. Since the subjective thesis of this paper is to examine the homelessness and role of self-reliance, therefore, it is necessary to examine the causes which are directly related to person forming the causes of homelessness. These personal factors may either relate to individual, family, and an institutional background.

Many people make themselves involve in socially destructive practices that not only affect the social life of a person but also creates many problems related to the individual and his personal life. These factors include absence of qualifications, drug and alcohol misuse, debt condition of a person, relationship status, and lack of social support, deprived mental and physical health, and involvement in criminal activities. Family disputes and breakdown also affect the capacity of a person to mange himself in stern situations. Excessive physical and sexual abuse during childhood or adolescent age, open culture towards drugs and alcohol in family, and past exposition to homelessness condition.

Contrasting to above stated causes, structural causes of homelessness are economic and social in nature, and are mostly external to the control of the individual that create significant changes in one's life in relation to creating homelessness situation. These causes include poverty, unemployment, housing policies, ...