A Postmodern Look At Poverty And Homelessness

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is: a supervised public or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); an institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or State Law. ( p. 23).
Now knowing the definition of "homeless" there can be a better understanding of the similarities between homelessness and poverty. Poverty and homelessness are more often than not found hand in hand.
Homelessness can be understood as included in two broad, sometimes overlapping categories of problems. The first category is experienced by people living in case poverty. Their homelessness tends to be a transient or episodic disruption in their ...

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of crisis poverty. Those with chronic disabilities require not only economic assistance, but rehabilitation and ongoing support as well.
In order to prevent poverty and homelessness, it is important to understand the structural causes of it. When designing measures to reach those who are already on the street, personal problems that contribute to the prolongation of homelessness must be addressed. Psychiatric disability, substance abuse, domestic violence and chronic illness not only add to the likelihood of someone becoming homeless, but complicate the task of finding someone a home who is already on the street. Among many risk factors, poverty is among the top contributors that ...

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