Cause Of Homelessness In The United States

USA Homelessness

The first things most Americans do when they walk into their house’s on a blistering cold winter night is crank up the heat, never even thinking twice. Many other Americans do not have that luxury. Every night Americans sleep in their cozy warm house while countless others sleep on the hard cold ground or in boxes curled up into a ball to attempt to try and stay warm. Not many people jump up to help when they see someone on the street most have a reaction of being either grossed out or creeped out. Without the help of charities such as A Child’s Place and Abode Services even more adults and children would be sleeping on the streets each and every night. No one should have to worry about where they will be sleeping next.

The homeless people have not necessarily done anything horrible or committed a crime to end up on the street. Some of them physically cannot avoid being homeless. They have no other options left available to them. There are two main causes of homelessness in the United States one is structural problems. Structural problems consists of problems that you cannot physically control the cost money, such as the cost of your apartments rising, the cost of groceries rising, or the cost of insurances rising. The second main cause is individual problems. Individual problems are also things you cannot physically control but they only affect one person instead of a whole community. Examples of individual problems most commonly are health problems such as diabetes or a mental health disorder

Many people have their own definition of homeless but Dictonary.com states that homeless means “persons who lack permanent housing (Dictionary).” “A large portion of all homeless people are middle aged males (Burt).” There are also many students who attend high school homeless. Not many people know this or even take the time to consider it. We have come to a point in society where we just assume everyone gets three meals a day and a warm bed to sleep in at night. Without even realizing some of our own classmates do not have this luxury available to them. “More than a million, or 2 percent of the student population is considered homeless (More than 600,000 Americans Are Homeless On Any given