Definition And Categories Of Homelessness - 2161 Words

Definition and Categories of Homelessness The Early Years The meaning of homelessness has changed many times in the past years, we have forgotten that casual laborers, vagrants, and the wandering poor were not unseen in early years, whereby homelessness is an uneasy situation in society. According to Shlay Rossie, (1992), homelessness is an individual without a home or a permanent place, but current perspectives indicate that intermittent homelessness falls into the definition. At the beginning vagrancy focused on skid row with the attention on single room hotels, boarding houses, and cheap places to eat, on the community that attracted transients, though they were not homerless, whereby they had had a place to sleep with an address.†¦show more content†¦According to Hubley et al. (2014), the quality of life for homeless is lower than that of the general population because of his or her living conditions, such those who live on the streets with no place for personal care. There are no difference in the quality of life of gender s, but there are more services available to mothers caring for children than there are for single men, whereby there is a need for more male services. â€Å"Los Angeles County is the homeless capital of the USA, with at least 88,000 homeless in 2005 (Reese, Deverteuil, Thach, 2010).† The reason for the high number of homeless is the lack of income, a drop in non-existent welfare support and not enough affordable housing, as a result has people into homelessness. The rent in California is high with a studio apartment running an average $843 per month, which is not within the affordable rent for a minimum wage earner nor a recipient of Supplemental Security Income. According to Reese et al. (2010), a majority of the homeless are in the older, diverse urban neighborhoods where homeless services have a habit of gathering. As a result of low-income living in one area, the degree of mental disabilities and substance misuse are roughly twice as high among the homeless compared to the entire County. Imminent Homeless According to Shlay Rossie, (1992), intermittent homelessness is the movement in and out of his or her living situation, whereby the individual has