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Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants [a] usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft.
Two hoboes, one carrying a bindle, walking along railroad tracks after being put off a train (c. 1880s –1930s). A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. [1] [2] Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
"A Tramp's Nest in Ludlow Street", How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by Jacob Riis. Wanderers have existed since ancient times. The modern concept of the "tramp" emerges with the expansion of industrial towns in the early nineteenth century, with the consequent increase in migrant labor and pressure on housing.
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.
Blazes caused by the throngs of homeless flooding Los Angeles’ streets with potentially deadly encampments doubled between 2020 and 2023, soaring to 13,909, according to a report.
A vagrant is a person who lives without a home or regular employment and wanders from place to place. Vagrant or vagrancy may also refer to: Biology. Concepts
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped the assault charges against a Chinatown landlord who beat a homeless man after the vagrant attacked him with a weapon — and now the landlord ...
Laughing gull, a species of the Americas, photographed in Wales.. Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; [1] they are known as vagrants.