The Epidemic Of Homelessness In The 1600's

Homelessness is a social crisis in the United States, homeless people are those who ''Lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence''. Structural and individual factors are usually connected, individual problems can come up from structural disadvantages such as poverty and/or lack of education. While personal factors, such as social relationships and family, can also be put under pressure by structural forces such as poverty. Homelessness came as a national issue in the 1870s and into the 20th Century, The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a horrible epidemic of poverty, hunger and homelessness. In the 1640s homelessness was seen as a moral deficiency, an error on character construction. If a person was homeless in the 1600s, a

Homelessness is a social issue that can be found in any big city, any country, any continent, it is a world issue and it affects us all. In the United States alone there was more than 564,000 people experiencing homelessness that is almost 0.18% of America. 83,170 individuals, or 15% of the homeless population, are considered “chronically homeless”. Chronic homelessness is an individual who has a disability and has been homelessness for a year or more. Families with a minimum of one adult member who meets that criteria are also considered chronically homeless. As the National Alliance to End Homelessness explains, “While people experiencing chronic homelessness make up a small number of the overall homeless population, they are among the most vulnerable. They tend to have high rates of behavioral health problems, including severe mental illness and substance use disorders; conditions that may be exacerbated by physical illness, injury, or trauma”, Which means that the longer people with Chronically homelessness stay out in the streets, they will be getting worst every day that they stay more in the