HOMELESSNESS

Homelessness in Britain

Homelessness in Britain

Introduction

The state of people without the regular residing portrays the homelessness. Homeless people are not able to maintain usual, secure and satisfactory housing, or not have regular, permanent, and safe night time dwelling. The permissible definitions of homelessness fluctuate from country to country, or can also differ among the different institutions in the same region or country. The word also include the people whose night time residence is in warming centre, homeless shelter, cardboard boxes or one-time unplanned housing situation. England government homeless details studies include the persons who sleep in a private or public place, which has not designed to use as a regular sleeping lodgings for human beings. In western countries, the large number of homeless is men which are 75% to 80 %, particularly includes single ones. It is something about more than rooflessness. In spite of physical space, home also has social and legal aspects. It provides identity, sense of belonging, ancestry, and a place of touching wellbeing. The loss of all these describes homelessness. It is very harsh and dividing experience. Homeless people are the most helpless, weak and socially excluded in our culture. It is likely that homelessness will increase further because of the delayed economic downturn effects, housing benefits cuts and other improvements all start to bite.

Discussion

The forth richest country in the world is Britain. It is economically successful and possesses the developed and progressive social welfare system. Despite of this reputation, whenever walk through the any city of Britain in night, it would be likely to meet the homeless people; women and men bent up on cardboard boxes and shivering from the cold, proofs the wide space in the state security. The majority of people in the Britain enjoy the high standard of living. Therefore, homelessness is not a big concern. For most of the susceptible group of people in our society, risk of homelessness is much higher like for those leaving in prison, having mental health problems, people leaving care, and older or single parents.

In Britain, homelessness is not a new phenomenon. By the Second World War, homelessness and poverty were considered as the past things, and it was thought that all housing and income needs have been met. Only few thousand people were accepted as homeless by local authorities in 1960. After then, homelessness has emerged as a big problem which effecting the different areas of the cities as well as rural villages. According to Marcuse (1993), homelessness is no more linked with the economical changes and conditions (Izuhara, 2003, pp 180). In United Kingdom, homelessness is described in the lines of homelessness legislation. People who cannot get access to accommodation because they fall outside the group specified by the 1977, 1985 and 1996 Act are called Non statutory homeless. They are also generally called single homeless people because this group is largely made of single people without children. Statutory homeless people are qualified for assistance (Burrows, et.al, 1997, pp ...