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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. 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."

  4. 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).

  5. How problems at two of Skid Row's largest landlords threaten ...

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    An affordable housing shortage has stymied efforts to get people off the streets. The dismal state of SROs leaves L.A.'s poorest with even fewer places to go.

  6. Most Americans in new survey list inflation, homelessness as ...

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    Homelessness and debt were second on the list, among 32 topics polled, each bringing in 59 percent. In 2023, homelessness was seen as a serious problem for 60 percent of Americans while debt stood ...

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

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    Criminalizing encampments causes more harm to vulnerable communities New apartments can be seen from across the site of a long-standing homeless encampment underneath the Jefferson Street Bridge ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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]