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There are a number of questions to be answered when addressing the subject of homelessness in the United States. What are the primary causes of homelessness? What are the economic and socioeconomic factors that have an impact on homeless people? What demographic trends can be identified in homeless populations? Is the U.S. addressing the needs and concerns of homeless people adequately? Where are the areas with the highest homeless populations? What can be done to help homeless people who live with mental illness and/or addiction problems?
Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook answers all of these questions and more. It thoroughly examines the history of homelessness in the U.S., shining a light on the key issues, events, policies, and attitudes that contribute to homelessness and shape the experience of being homeless. It places special emphasis on exploring the myriad problems that force people into homelessness, such as inadequate levels of affordable housing, struggles with substance abuse, and gaps in the U.S. social welfare system. In addition, it explains why some demographic groups are at heightened risk of homelessness.
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Copyright 2022 by ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wakin, Michele, author.
Title: Homelessness in America: a reference handbook / Michele Wakin.
Description: Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, [2022] |
Series: Contemporary world issues | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021040475 (print) | LCCN 2021040476 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440874857 (hardcover ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781440874864 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: HomelessnessUnited StatesHistory.
Classification: LCC HV4504 .W3244 2022 (print) | LCC HV4504 (ebook) | DDC 362.8/920973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040475
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040476
ISBN: 978-1-4408-7485-7 (print)
978-1-4408-7486-4 (ebook)
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Homelessness in the United States is surprising because it is a country of great wealth. It is also surprising because the United States is viewed as a land of opportunity. When people are homeless, we dont often question how our society and economy have failed them. Instead, we wonder what is wrong with homeless people themselves. The American Dream is based on the idea that anyone can become rich and successful with enough hard work and dedication. Perhaps this leads us to think that homeless people are not working hard enough or that they are not dedicated enough. Systemic racism and cyclical poverty show us that this is not the case. Ongoing structural barriers prevent equal access to housing, education, and employment, excluding people from these basic resources and then blaming them for their own poverty and homelessness.
This book examines individual and societal risk factors that make people vulnerable to homelessness and poverty. It documents the nations effort to understand and serve a growing, diverse population. It also shows that throughout the nations history, access to housing is structured by race as a social category. This means that unequal access to housing has left people of color, and African Americans in particular, overrepresented in marginal, urban spaces and within the homeless population. As sociologists and race theorists point out, urban neighborhoods bereft of opportunity also become targets for law enforcement. This targeting is another shocking feature of U.S. society, world leader in class and race-based policing and incarceration.
In addition to housing, exploring access to education and employment shows that these resources are also identity based. Women and people of color have always been paid less in the U.S. labor market, excluded from training and educational opportunities, and shut out of certain professions entirely. Research shows that discrimination is not based on performance or ability but on stereotypical ideas of capability. Over time, being unable to accumulate wealth affects generations, not merely individuals. This means that it takes at least twice as long to purchase a home and to afford an education or quality health care, depending on who you are. Single mothers, for example, must work four times as hard at low-wage jobs to afford basic needs goods for their children. When they seek welfare assistance, they face strict eligibility rules, racism, time limits, and a punitive approach to poverty. Increasingly, welfare assistance and emergency services offer only temporary relief from homelessness and a life trapped in underfunded schools, low-wage employment, and substandard housing.
The effects of experiencing homelessness are traumatic for both adults and children. Children who experience chronic homelessness often face instability later in life. Even mere housing insecurity can have detrimental effects. The toll that homelessness takes on children affects their personal, social, and academic development, putting them further behind their housed peers. In addition, unaccompanied homeless youth are a growing portion of those experiencing homelessness. Factors that lead to youth homelessness include LGBTQ status, criminal justice involvement, foster care, physical and sexual abuse, and mental health and substance use issues. All of these are risk factors that can precipitate homelessness, lead to trauma, and make exit more difficult.
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