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Conversely, homelessness can cause further health issues, due to constant exposure to environmental threats such as violence and communicable diseases. Homeless people have disproportionately high rates of poly substance use, mental illness, physical health problems and legal issues/barriers in attaining employment. [191]
Medical problems, including issues caused by an individual's homeless state (e.g., hypothermia or frostbite from sleeping outside in cold weather), or issues that are exacerbated by homelessness due to lack of access to treatment (e.g., mental health and the individual not having a place to store prescription drugs)
After a visit to San Francisco's homeless camps in January 2018, United Nations special rapporteur Leilani Farha stated that the belief that drug abuse was a root cause of homelessness was not generally true, that the reverse is more prevalent, whereby "Most people on the streets are living with some sort of 'structural trauma,' meaning they ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In the 2022 book Homelessness is a Housing Problem, the authors studied per capita homelessness rates across the country along with what possible factors might be influencing the rates. They found that high rates of homelessness are caused by shortages of affordable housing, not by mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty.
One of the most vexing factors contributing to Los Angeles' homelessness problem is the lack of ... a backlog of building repairs and gaps in social services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have ...