Cause Of Homelessness In The United States

Homeless Speaker All across America there are many families without homes and even in Bowling Green there are homeless individuals and families The Daily News mentions, that Warren County is the 7th county in Kentucky for the amount of homeless people per capita. Rhodell Miller, Executive Director for Hotel Inc., stated that even couch surfers are considered to be homeless and anyone without a permanent residence. A good reason that Miller gave that lead someone to become homeless is because of the lack affordable housing in our area. The policies and procedures of income based housing just takes too long and most people are looking for housing immediately. Another big cause to homelessness that there isn’t a lot of housing that anyone can afford on just a minimum wage job. It is really surprising in the documentary Tent City, USA, that there is a lot of women living on the streets because it is better than staying in their abusive relationships. One women told her story and she said that she had a nice house, a big
She gave everything up just to get away from her ex-husband. Even Miller said that the number one cause of homelessness in this area is due to relationship changes. Children are even affected by homelessness. My step-sisters were homeless for many years with their biological parents. They had to sleep in tents. One of them told me that she remembered some of her brothers and sisters dying in the woods. It is really depressing that Kentucky is the number one state for children that are homeless. This was unbelievable to me until researching it and finding the facts. One in fifteen children in Kentucky is homeless; this is one too many. There are some people that are trying to lower these numbers, but more people