What are the statistics of people becoming homeless?

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  -Poverty is a common thread for nearly everyone who experiences homelessness.
 -As more people become poor, more people become at risk of homelessness.
 -According to the US Census Bureau, 43.6 million people were in poverty in the year of 2009.

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 Discrimination- Racial discrimination limits their access to employment, their educational success, and their ability to access the services they need.

 Homophobia- Research shows that between 20-30% of young homeless people are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered. This discrimination, which is often related with violence, may make staying at home uncomfortable, and forces many people to end up on the streets.

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 -People who are homeless are unable to pay for housing, food, child care, health care, and education.
 -In 2000, 11.3% of the U.S. population, or 31.1 million people, lived in poverty.
-Families and individuals who struggle to pay rent, a serious illness or disability can cause homelessness  
         -beginning with a lost job,
         -no amount of savings to pay for care
         -eviction.
-Nearly a third of persons living in poverty had no health insurance of any kind.

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- According to a 2002 federal study, approximately 1.7 million younger people are living out in the streets.
-Children under 18 years of age accounted for 39% of the homeless population.
-Almost half of the 39% of homeless people were younger than age 5.

Summary Paragraph: Poverty is one of the most common reasons as to why people experience homelessness. According to the 2010 Census data, 14.3% of people nationwide are living in poverty.  As more people become poor, more people become at risk of homelessness. The number of people living in extreme poverty has increased over the years. People who are homeless are most likely unable to pay for housing, food, child care, health care, and education. 40%  of people living in poverty are children. The world's homeless population increased by about 20,000 people from 2008 to 2009. There are difficult choices that have to be made when you are at risk of homelessness. According to a 2002 federal study, 39% of the homeless population were children under 18 years old. Almost half of these homeless children were younger than age 5. Younger people are at a higher risk of becoming homeless if their parents are using drugs, have mental health problems, if there is child abuse involved or child neglect in the home. Children who have been in foster care are also at a higher risk of becoming homeless. While most people experiencing homelessness are sheltered, nearly 4 out of 10  people were living on the street, or living in their cars. 

How does illness lead to people being homeless

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Homeless people become ill with Mental Health. And people don't realize how being homeless affects there mental health. The stress and the depression they go threw can overwhelm them and become secondary to theor physical and material trials. Which affects their minds that control the center of there body.

http://homelessresourcenetwork.org/causes.html
Mental Illness - Approximately 20-25% of the single adult homeless population suffer from some form of severe and persistent mental

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - This disorder is common with veterans and those that have been in violent situations. It can make it difficult to have a stable life. 
• Illness - For families and individuals struggling to pay the rent, a serious illness or disability can start a downward spiral into homelessness, beginning with a lost job, depletion of savings to pay for care, and eventual eviction.
• Physical Disabilities - Disabled individuals may be unable to work or find appropriate employment. For those receiving SSI, they often struggle to obtain and maintain stable housing. 

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Another reason people become homeless by an illness is Mental illness,which often makes people who suffer from it unable to work.  It can alienate them from their support systems and even damage their ability to accept needed help.  People with severe mental illnesses who have subsidized housing sometimes have difficultly maintaining it through period when they decompensate and need to go into the hospital.


Summary Paragraph: Not only can Mental Illness or other illnesses can cause people to go homeless, but being homeless can give that person and Illness also. Some people who become homeless are veterans. The illness they get is called Post Traumatic stress disorder,"Factors Contributing to Homelessness". This causes them to become homeless because after being in such violent situations it's hard for them to live a stable life. The people who are already homeless end up suffering from Mental illness because of all the stress and depression they go threw.Physical Disabilities is another reason for people becoming homeless. Some people with disabilities may be unable to work or find an appropriate job. Because of this, it makes them feel alienated from there support and makes it hard for them to obtain and maintain stable housing.The people with disabilities can go homeless due to the cost of medical care.Many people don't realize that even "Good" medical insurance is not a  guarantee of medical care. They are surprised to find out that thier insurance will not cover all thier medical expenses or treatment. This causes them to lose there health insurance due to the injury. In result some homeless people are on the streets because of injury or illness, not because there lazy or don't care.

How does homelessness affect society

http://slohomeless.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/homelessness-the-social-impact/

             This article is talking about the economic impact that homelessness has on the society. This is saying that having homeless support service program such as homeless shelters, day centers, etc. are costly ventures. These programs come in the form of taxpayer dollars and private donations. Most of these programs are unfunded so not a lot are offered. The meaning to this is that most of the homeless have to find another way for getting their basic needs. The homeless that can’t get jobs are going to turn to the recycling methods so they could have money in their pockets.

              When the homeless turn to the recycling methods there are problems because some of the community complains that the homeless people are stealing their recycling goods and also they complains to the government to do something about the homeless people . So the police are involved into this and they have to make the laws stricter for these activities.

             For the homeless people who were caught stealing other people’s recycling goods were research for their IDs and they were given a ticket. But this wasn’t a good thing because it takes more money to do this and it has to go to the court to be settled at. Sometimes the homeless who were caught are put in the local jail which means more paperwork for the government people.

              This article also talks about the environmental impact that homelessness has on a society. For most communities they don’t have enough supportive resources to help the homeless people. The homeless have to find somewhere to live and sleep. These places include doorways of other people’s places, benches outside, behind builds, etc. Also the homeless have to use wherever they find better for their needs because some business place denies them to use the bathrooms. Another thing is that people denies the homeless food. And the homeless people don’t want to starve so they have to steal food from places so they could live. When is it a cold or warm weather the homeless steals supplies from stores so they could protect themselves. 

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               This article talks about the identification of homeless. People could identify homeless by seeing them wearing the same clothes and looking dirty. Also by seeing them sleeping outside under cardboard boxes and when you see them pushing a shopping carts with a lot of trash in it. This article says that teachers could identify homeless children by the way they are in class and by the way they eat during lunch time. It says that school sometimes checks their records for the students that they think that they’re homeless to see if the address is legitimate.

                The effects on homelessness are huge on their physical and emotional health. Homelessness men and women don’t have the money get the medical care they need so they suffer from colds. Homeless people are more likely to get into drugs and alcohol and getting HIV. Also they don’t get enough vitamins to be healthy or sleep. Another thing is that homeless people are more likely to get raped and get into a physical violence because they don’t have houses to protect them.

                    There are three types of homelessness according to this article.

·         Temporary homelessness: this is the ones that are kicked out of their house but not for a long time because of something that went wrong to their homes.

·         Circumstantial homelessness: this is the ones that lose their homes of residence. They might have lost their jobs. These people are homeless for sometimes but then they get back on their feet and get everything they had.

·         Long-term homelessness: this is for the people that remains homeless for a long time and may stay homeless for the rest of their lives. Some of the long-term homelessness people stays the way they are because the get used to it and they stop looking for other ways to improve themselves to get better in life.

           In 2005 there were 744,313 people that have experienced homelessness. The states that have the largest amount of homelessness in the United States are California, Texas, New York, and Florida.  And the ones that has the smallest amount of homelessness are Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, Mississippi, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

             This also talks about the preventions for homelessness. UNICEF is the one of the biggest organizations that helps the homelessness people to get back to their feet.

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How does substance abuse affect the homeless?

http://www.addiction-recovery-expose.com/homelessness.html

http://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/publications/visions/housing-homelessness/bck/6

Substance Use: Pathways to homelessness? Or a way of adapting to street life?(Visions: BC's Mental Health and Addictions Journal, 2007, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 9-10.)

http://www.edrugrehab.com/articles/skid-row-homelessness-and-addiction

Skid Row: Homelessness and Addiction(2012 eDrugRehab)

Studies show that the percent of homeless people who have substance abuse problems are rising. In 2002 about 39% of the homeless admit to using drugs. Just 3 years later in 2005 the percent of homeless with substance abuse problems rose to 48%. It is clear that many homeless people have abuse substances but is that the reason they become homeless? Many people see a homeless person drinking or using drugs and assume that was the reason they became homeless. Most homeless people don’t become homeless from substance abuse problems but instead become addicted to drugs while being homeless. If they do become addicted it is hard for them to seek treatment because lack of health insurance, lack of transportation to treatment facilities or meetings, and unsupportive environment being around all the drug users. (Skid Row: Homelessness and Addiction) Even though it can be tough for someone to get help there are many different charities and shelters that are designed to help them.

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