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  2. 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 ...

  3. Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why are its leaders ...

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    The city says about 1,400 people are homeless in Fresno proper, and an estimated 4,500 people are homeless across Fresno and Madera counties, up from 2,500 in 2019. Before 2020, Fresno had no city ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Column: The truth about our homelessness crisis: As ...

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    She found in the six months prior to their being homeless, people's average income was $960. So impoverished people need stable housing — which is the starting point L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is ...

  7. Efforts underway to mitigate effects of homelessness - AOL

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    Jul. 1—LENOIR — Homelessness occurs for any number of reasons. "I've often wondered how they land here and why," said a store manager who wished to remain anonymous. "We seem to see a lot of ...

  8. Homelessness in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]

  9. My homeless neighbors are being replaced by rocks. NIMBYs ...

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    My neighbors are disappearing and being replaced by rocks. Hundreds of big ol’ mountain bits, two to three hundred pounds apiece, now fill up the areas where my neighbors used to camp.