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  2. Homelessness - Wikipedia

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    Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.

  3. Youth homelessness - Wikipedia

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    Homeless children sleeping in New York City, 1890. Photographed by Jacob Riis.. Youth homelessness is the problem of homelessness or housing insecurity amongst young people around the globe, extending beyond the absence of physical housing in most definitions and capturing familial instability, poor housing conditions, or future uncertainty (couch surfing, van living, hotels).

  4. Housing crisis - Wikipedia

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    These shortages, caused in part by regulatory barriers to new construction, have led to a rise in homelessness, housing insecurity, and housing costs. Its different manifestations indicate that there is not one crisis but a "web of problems and dysfunctions."

  5. Homelessness is a crisis, but sweeping encampments cause more ...

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    Opinion: Homelessness is a health crisis, but so are encampment closures without widespread affordable housing and permanent supportive housing. Homelessness is a crisis, but sweeping encampments ...

  6. Homelessness and mental health - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the age group in question and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25% of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. 45% percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness.

  7. Los Angeles' $22-billion homelessness problem gives ... - AOL

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    Experts say a new $22-billion plan to end homelessness in the city of Los Angeles reveals decades of underfunding and pitfalls of leaders' current approach.

  8. Family homelessness - Wikipedia

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    Homeless children pose serious problems when it comes to their success and their future. Such problems include hunger, poor nutrition, developmental delays, anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, and educational underachievement. [21] Social isolation is thought to be more a consequence than a cause of family homelessness. [22]

  9. Discrimination against homeless people - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination against homeless people is categorized as the act of treating people who lack housing in a prejudiced or negative manner due to the fact that they are homeless. Other factors can compound discrimination against homeless people including discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, age, mental illness, and other ...