Homelessness

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This paper explains that homelessness is generally viewed as the consequence of the shortage of affordable housing and an increase in the volume of poor people. The author points out that the 1996 Welfare Reform Bill aimed at moving homeless people from welfare dependency into employment but employment did not guarantee affordable residence because of the cost of housing; according to a survey of 29 cities, one in five homeless persons was a full or part-time employee. The paper relates that homelessness can exact a high price on society in terms of hospitalization and medical treatment, through prisons and jail costs, emergency shelter and lost opportunity.

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"NAEH addressed homelessness in four steps, namely, by planning for outcomes, closing the front door, opening the back door and building the infrastructure (2003). It was projected that in the course of a single year, 2.5 to 3.5 million people would experience homelessness in the US. Ending the phenomenon required an understanding of the needs and characteristics of the sub-populations of homeless people. Most of these families become homeless usually because of a housing crisis. Their other needs are linked with their housing need. Abut 38% of those who become homeless within the course of a year are children. In addition, about half of all of those people in the course of a year are single adults, who leave the system rather quickly, live within one or a combination of shelters, hospitals, the streets or prisons. "

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