Homelessness

Homelessness

Introduction

Homelessness is a serious problem in US that requires considerable attention at state and at national level. Considerable measures have been taken by government in past few decades to control the homelessness as dramatic increase has been observed in the homelessness condition. Homelessness, gentrification, and the displacement of the urban poor have become major issues in public policy debates over the last decade. Homelessness is a crucial social problem skeptical to the role of state and their concern towards public welfare. It is often viewed as result of interwoven systemic and personal problems. Government bodies suggest that the main cause of increasing homelessness among its citizen is the increasing gap between income level and housing costs (Switzer, 1992).

The meaning of the term "homeless" lies in the very etymology of the word. Homeless people belongs to a social group in society, characterized by lack of shelter, home. These are people who do not have either their own homes, or service housing or rented accommodation or accommodation provided by relatives, friends and acquaintances. However, the mere absence of a person permanent housing does not make him homeless. For example, the Roma are treated in society as a stray. Although these people often do not have permanent housing. The same can be said about the newcomers, whose professional skills are in demand in the market (the representatives of creative professions, skilled workers are rare specialties). In contrast to the category of homeless people, they belong to his community, which is their emotional support and allows them to feel popular. They "fit" into a system that detects and fixes them a certain social status (Quindlen, 2010).

The lack of permanent housing becomes a critical factor in determining the homeless only when there is a socially acceptable role in any system of public employment, either in the family or the community. It is characterized by homelessness, and in this case, "life on the street" leads to irreversible consequences. Thus, a typical symptom of homeless people is to break the old kinship and friendship. This means that the homeless are not just a lack of housing, they are detached from their former primary social groups (family, friendships, community, professional societies), "drop out" of the conventional social hierarchies, losing their inherent characteristics and roles. The person who ends up outside of the primary social group and has no shelter, acquires specific features of behavior that is characteristic for the homeless, he perceives the norms and values ??adopted by this category of people who are different from the values ??that prevail in society (O'Flaherty, 1996).

Thesis Statement

This research paper focuses basically on finding the causes and effects of homelessness. Being homeless has a lot of negative impacts on the person. He is not able to develop completely and is unable to do work or for making him responsible. There are many people, who are homeless, but according to some studies previously done, there are a number of people who still have the element of humanity present in them and they are ...