HOMELESSNESS

Homelessness

Homelessness

Introduction

The definition of homelessness is the focus of important policy issues. It must be said that such a definition directly affects the quantitative assessments of the numbers affected by this tragedy and, consequently, the amount of resources ought to be devoted. A homeless person is someone who lives on the streets of the cities (it is a phenomenon not seen in towns or in the field) and temporarily in shelters because of a break chains, sudden and traumatic family ties and social and employment. Fear often leads to relive traumatic events in this person rejection (of varying degrees, depending on the person) to try again to lead a working life and rebuild family and social relationships. (Baker, 2009, pp. 476-504)

Discussion

Homeless Women

When we think of homelessness, it is most often the image of a man who comes to mind. Yet women are becoming more likely to be homeless. Their journey is often very different from that of men. In the recent years, poverty has increased in our cities. Women and parent families are most affected by this vulnerability. When one is on the ropes, job loss can become the trigger for a spiral that can lead straight to the street. Even if they hide in the same neighborhoods and under the same coverage than men, women do unaware of the same problems as men when they find themselves in the street. (Bassuk et al., 2008, pp. 241-248)

They are more fragile and are therefore more easily attacked, either by bystanders or other homeless. As it can happen anywhere, but probably more than anywhere else it happens in the street. They are harassed and are often picked up by fellow drunk. Women homelessness includes homeless, living on the street or inhabitants- as substandard, either alone or accompanied by others. Women involved in prostitution: those who trade sex on the street or in certain urban or clubs road, and linking the status of prostitute reality or some vulnerability to social exclusion. (Liebow, 2003, pp.674)

Women former prisoners who, over the past five years, have lived in prison, and preventive or count- national firm for the commission of a crime, and current- mind are at liberty, either by meeting sentence, or under probation. Women drug addicts and consumers addicted acts- them in dose, form and manner injurious to health, products and substances such as alcohol abusive, heroin, cocaine, synthetic drugs, the amphetamines and hallucinogens. The study of the social reality of each of these four segments excluded women is reduced to those with aged between 16 and 65. (Baumohl, 2010, pp. 281-300)

The group of people “homeless” is violated one of the as fundamental rights enshrined in the law- the right to housing. Therefore, people and, in particular, women who are in this situation are devoid of looking at basic minimum standards for its existence. In addressing its quantification we find that the most of the estimates made to date limited to counting people who come to these refuges, canteens of social services, ...