HOMELESSNESS IN THE U.S.

What is Homelessness

Homeless is a person who lack a adequate night time residence.

POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESA

• Poverty: not enough money to pay for shelter, food, clothing, utilities, healthcare, etc.
• About 12.5% of the US population is living in poverty (37,000,000)
• Poverty increases due to (increases in unemployment, decreasing in wages, decreasing in public assistance)

2 CATEGORIES OF HOMELESSNESS

-Episodic Homelessness
-Chronically Homelessness

EPISODIC HOMELESSNESS

• Temporary homelessness
• Lack of jobs or domestic violence
• Natural disasters

CHRONICALLY HOMELESSNESS

• Homelessness is a way of life
• Lack of financial resources
• Mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction, or persistent health problem

HISTORY OF THE HOMELESSNESS IN THE US

• Preindustrial phase
• Early industrization
• Initial colonization
• Mature industrialization
• Deindustrialization

PHASE 1: preindustrial phase

-Shortage of shelters
-Government took a lot of land to start building factories with huge machineries

PHASE 2: Early Industrialization

-It was late 18th - early 19th century
-A lot of people came to the cities to work in factories.
-A lot were unemployed.

PHASE 3: Initial colonization

-cheap labor, all money was going for exporting goods for machineries
-poorly paid, didn't have work often

PHASE 4: Mature Industrialization

-Was on the 1870s
-The Great Depression (created 2 tier economy) happened in the 1929-1930
-2 tier economy, in which 1 group receives lower wages and benefits than the other.

PHASE 5: Deindustrialization

-Was on the 1980s
-Changes in the economic system
-More affordable housing, but Low-wage jobs

MAIN 8 CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS

FACTS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS

More than 45% of people who are homeless have gone one or more day without eating.

Domestic violence is a leading cause in homelessness for women

32%of homeless people have attempted suicide at some point in their lives

One quarter of homeless people are children younger than 18

Quote
"We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve"
-Linda Linge(governor of Hawaii)

Quote

"Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless"
-Pras Michel(rapper)

Quote

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on stadium or golf course"
-Jello Biafra (singer)

Quote

"The world of homeless is a very tough, yet interesting world"
-Paul Dano (actor, producer)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/ten-facts-about-homelessn_b_5977...
• https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-homeless-teens
• http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/homeless.html
• http://www.avapl.org/pub/2010Conference/Presentations/Vic%20Carlson%20on%20...
• http://www.dceh.org/the-history-of-homelessness-in-america-1640s-to-present...
• http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist111/industrial.html
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/40553067?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents