Homelessness
In the United States, definitions of homelessness help
determine who is able to receive shelter and assistance from certain health and
social service providers. The Stewart McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987
defines a homeless person as any individual who lacks housing, including an
individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or
private facility that provides temporary living accommodations or an individual
who is a resident in transitional housing.
Causes of Homelessness
The most relevant
reasons of being a homelessness for by male participants were relationship
breakdown, substance misuse, and leaving an institution (prison, care, hospital
etc.).
People with mental illness are at higher risk for becoming
homeless, for this reason they decided lives in the street as a way of living
without families discrimination.
For homeless women, the most common causes were
physical or mental health problems and escaping a violent relationship.
Social research has studied the causes and consequences
of homelessness, surveying homeless people, examining entrances into
homelessness, exits from homelessness, and effects of homelessness on health
and well-being.
The increased use of drugs and alcohol, as a homelessness
person, is caused by their emotional problems of being alone, These
explanations mirror the processes of deinstitutionalization in mental health
policy, unemployment, addiction and abuse, and urban decay.
Consequences
Consequences of homelessness include the exacerbation of
problems which may have caused homelessness. Homeless people have less access
to housing, jobs, health care, and basic needs like food and clothing.Homeless
women and men. Disaffiliation from family often limits opportunities for recovery
and prevention.
Whatever the causes of an individual's homelessness, the
consequences can be brutal. Homelessness damages people's capability
through loss of skills, through an inability to think about employment whilst
worrying about housing, and through their health becoming impaired whilst homeless.
They are alone in a hard situation that for many people
is not considered important, homelessness people needs shelters and food for a
better way of live.
One in four ex-homeless people also find themselves
unable to sustain a tenancy - loneliness and isolation are the main
causes, often compounded by lack of choice about where they can live.
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