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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. LA honors homeless lives lost as overdose, violence and ...

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    And, the homeless mortality rate in California has been growing with almost 2,000 homeless individuals dying in Los Angeles in the last year alone. According to a County of Los Angeles public ...

  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 - Wikipedia

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    Homeless families do not always take refuge in shelters, but being homeless also does not necessarily mean living on the streets. Homeless women with children are more likely to live with family or friends than those without children, and this group is treated with higher priority by both the government and society. [142]

  9. Homeless camps, fentanyl, voyeurism, harsher penalties: These ...

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    There are 34 more laws going into effect on Tuesday, Oct. 1, including penalties for porch pirates; a crackdown on homeless people camping or sleeping on public property; law enforcement training ...