Monday, 20 January 2014

Homelessness

CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS?

Homelessness is a problem essentially many societys might suffersfrom. There are many factors that lead people to homelessness, the common reason why people end up homeless is because of their relationship breakdowns,Adjoa, A (2007)" when both where living together as they cannot afford the cost of living on their income alone".

 There are many other reasons why people end up living in the streets such having lack of education and living in expensive countries which results in to unemployment which leads to unaffordable social debts, mortgage and paying rents.

Other reasons are that family, parents with drug or alcohol addict or they go through sexual and violent abuse which leads to let their child run away without thinking of the consequences or pre-planning due to the violence and abuse that they are living in. Some people lose their parents at a young age and live in with relatives but after time, they are unable to accommodate them so they end up in the cold streets.


Possible solutions to homelessness? 

  There are many solution to homelessness, but people must know that solutions to homelessness are not equal. People may help get people of the streets or keeping them of the streets and it may look as a great job but that is not the solution. Robert (2004) stated that government with big interest will find solutions to homelessness by the reason of why they are homeless and try figure out useful ways in which they could prevent homelessness. People need to consider that people who are suffering and living in the streets need support services which help them with advice, help people who have mental health problems or drug/alcohol addicts with support and health services that could help them recover. Homeless people could also eligible to be payed every week by the government a certain amount of money which could help them live on with as long as they are committed to look for a job.

 

 

References:
https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility
http://england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns/why_we_campaign/tackling_homelessness/What_causes_homelessness

Bibliography:
Adjoa, A (2007). The Social Causes of Homelessness. USA: American University, 2007. 83.

Robert, S (2004). voluntarism community lit and the american ethic. Indiana,Bloomington : Indiana, University Press. 167.


1 comment:

  1. Well done. You have used your sources well. Please edit for spelling and grammar errors. Some evaluation.This might be a good topic to present on, but you would need to use more sources and consider who is responsible for reducing the number of homeless people and for how long.

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