What is homelessness and how many people are homeless?
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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Homelessness is about more than rooflessness. A home is not just physical space, but also has legal and social dimensions. A home provides roots, identity, sense of belonging and the emotional well-being. Homelessness is about the loss of all of this. It is isolating and destructive experience and homeless people are some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded in our society.
After years of downward trend, 2010 marks a turning point when all forms of homelessness began to increase. However, it is likely that homelessness will increase yet further, as the delayed effects of the economic crisis, cuts to the interests of residential and other reforms begin to bite all.
Homelessness describes the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are most often not able to acquire and maintain regular, safe housing, safe, and adequate, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence.The legal definition of" homeless "varies from country to country, or . among different entities or institutions in the same country or region [dubious - discuss]
The term homeless may also include people whose primary night-time living in a homeless shelter, central heating, a domestic violence shelter, cardboard boxes or ad hoc housing situation. American Government homeless enumeration studies also include persons who sleep in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless in 2005. In western countries, mostly homeless men (75-80%), with single men are very overrepresented. In the United States, LGBT people are over-represented among homeless youth, at 40%.
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