Homelessness

While there are many reasons why the homeless population continues to increase social and economic factors have contributed to this epidemic. The global financial crisis has contributed to the prevalence of homelessness in the United States. The social factors that contribute to homelessness include living in poverty and not enough affordable housing.

According to many people, homelessness is caused by low minimum wage, high unemployment rates, and overpriced housing. The minimum wage in California is $9.00 a hour, and a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is about $1,983. About 7.1 percent of the people are unemployed in the Los Angeles county, and about half the people rely on minimum wage. These overpriced apartments make it difficult for many families and individuals to have a stable home. When it comes to minimum wage or unemployment, you have one of two options, you either go hungry or become homeless. In order to fight against the real issue, we have to raise minimum wage, create more jobs, lower rent prices, or provide more financial support to

Not everyone go through the same endeavors to become homeless. There is three main reasons people become homeless: poverty, unemployment and lack of affordable houses. Poverty is when there is not enough money for support. If people do not have enough money for their needs, they will need to do cutbacks. Once they start cutting back, they get behind on bills and either get evicted or have to foreclose. They are plenty of homeless individuals that are still employed. Yet they are homeless because they do not make enough to be financially stable. Even though some people may be unemployment, they should still have government programs to be stable. For example, they programs like Welfare reform, food stamps, unemployment checks, and housing assistance. These are programs made in order to support those with no jobs. With the many cutbacks on the budget that the government has, people cannot be stable enough on their own. With rents continuing to rise, there will be a greater deficit on affordable housing. According to Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids, “Two years ago the National Low Income Housing Coalition calculated that the hourly income necessary to afford the average

The government also puts programs like Section 8 and HUD in place, with hopes to help individuals sustain livable situations until they can stand on their own two feet. But this programs is actual a huge hindrance, Section 8 and HUD allows families with very low income to reside in a residence with people paying “market rate value”. This program is the same as England’s programs to assist the poverty stricken in finding homes. Only, these people abuse the system by moving into these places with no plans of ever moving out, or bettering themselves. To them this is success and there’s no need to seek more, they are content with what’s being handed to them. There ok with the idea of not having to work for anything, but living in the same quarters as hard working individuals, it’s almost unfair in a since.

Demand for jobs decreases and the cost of housing in America continues to rise, making it hard for people to afford it. According to United States Home prices and Values, the median home value in the United States is $182,500 and the cost of housing has increases by 3.7% over the past year and predicts that the cost will increase by 2.4% within the next year. Clearly from this data, we can tell that people living below the poverty line are unable to afford the houses. Also, with their meager income, they have spent it on other things such as food, clothes, schools that are necessities for their survival other than housing. So many things to spend on with their income makes it impossible for them to make a decision and ended up abandoning their

Homelessness has affected many people; more people are becoming homeless every year. Over half a million people are homeless.138,000 people are children under 18. There are many reasons why people become homeless. Some of the reasons are divorce, poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, drug addiction, and sexuality.

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, any night of the year finds more than 600,000 without shelter, while “3.5 million experience homelessness each year.” There are many factors that contribute to homelessness in America, but overwhelmingly, it is the economic factor which is largely responsible for the continuing rise in our homeless population. Quite simply, there is a shortage of affordable housing in our nation and the housing that is available requires the poor to spend the better part of half of their income on rent alone. This leaves almost nothing leftover to cover basic needs; making putting something away for a rainy day out of the question. Clearly, the cost of housing cannot be met with a minimum

Homelessness is a significant health challenge to care system in the United States. Maness and Khan state that over 610,000 people did not have a shelter in 2013 on any given night (Maness & Khan, 2014). Also, a study conducted by Health Quality Ontario (2016) reviewed homelessness interventions between 1995 and 2015. The study indicates that the problem has been in existence for quite some years. According to Maness and Khan (2014), an increase in the shortage of affordable housing has been the primary trends responsible for homelessness in over thirty years. Also, statistics indicated that about 14.3 percent of Americans and 10.5 percent of the families lived on

Native Americans are composed of numerous, distant tribes, bands and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact, sovereign nations. Once a self-governing, self-sufficient people, America Indians were forced to give up their homes and their land, and to subordinate themselves to an alien culture. From the origin of their tribes in the 1500’s to the early nineteenth century, American Indians have experienced oppression. Today, American Indians are more numerous than they have been for several centuries (Andersen & Collins, 2012). Today, Native Americans have a unique

John Handler adds, “ Home is the human point of ultimate return.” The main causes of homelessness are low incomes, lack of affordable housing, substance abuse, and/or lack of affordable medical care. Federal minimum wage laws allow employers to decrease the amount of money they pay employees that receive tips. These earnings are, in most cases, not enough to make ends meet. Over the past five years, wages for the lowest income workers have “not kept pace with the increase of living costs, nor the increase in salaries of those in the highest income brackets” John Handler states. Health care and insurance costs have risen substantially in the past few years, the current minimum wage being “27% less than it was in 1968”. This leaves the lowest income

Job loss is another large contributor to the increase in homelessness. I think that James Temple of SF Gate in his article titled “Striving to serve growing homeless population”, describes this best when he said “The chronically homeless stand alongside the newly desperate, people whose take-home pay didn’t last, who didn’t get the hours they’d hoped for, who unexpectedly lost homes or jobs”. Massive job losses are changing homeless culture. According to the Ken Homa, Goodwill Director of Housing Services in Traverse County, MN, “There has also been a significant increase in people

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The aim of this research is to explore how the place is experienced in a community health clinic for people who are going through homelessness. Individuals who are going through homelessness is in crucial need of health-promoting areas or space. This study was done in a community health center in Ontario. The center involved its focus on a health clinic for individuals who are going through homelessness. The clinic gives health and social services, which composes of a physician, a nurse practitioner, three nurses, a community worker, two administrative staff, and two social workers. These medical professionals came together and provided services to homeless individuals from those on the stress to those who live in the homeless shelter. The

The experience of living in poverty and being homeless can have serious and lasting impact on young people and families. Children’s Society report in 2010 states that young people and families who are destitute are surviving in appalling conditions and are made vulnerable to exploitation because they do not have adequate support, access to basic essentials and a safe place to live. They rely on friends for food and a place to stay and they experience significant health problems. Some young people and families who are destitute expose themselves to enormous physical and psychological risk by engaging in transactional and commercial sex work as survival strategies.

To begin with, individual conditions are major causes of homelessness, and they are quite numerous. For instance, the past of the individuals could be packed with shocking events. Some people have really hard time getting over them, and they always cause them many psychological or physical problems that may hinder their development in life. Shocking events may include loss of job or money. Research (as cited in Gowan, 2010) shows that 22.61% of homeless people are not working seriously to earn enough money. In addition, personal crises, whether social or economic have a huge impact on the individual’s present situation. If someone faces bankruptcy they have a higher chance of facing homelessness in the future. Also, mental illness