People. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2017.
A homeless person is any person who needs lodging, including someone whose main living place at night is a public place that provides temporary living conditions or a person who doesn't have anywhere to stay. Poverty goes side by side with homelessness. Individuals with mental illness are at higher risk for becoming homeless because of difficulties connected with deinstitutionalization and poverty and disability associated with mental illness.Consequences of homelessness include the intensification of issues which may have brought on homelessness. Homeless people have less access to homes, jobs, health care, and fundamental …show more content…
"Other impairments such as depression, untreated mental illness, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical disabilities are also responsible for a large portion of the homeless." Natural disasters, divorces, and poverty are the main causes of homelessness. The greatest problem for the recently homeless is to make sense of how to return to their typical lives. Organizations that build emergency shelters and transitional housing typically work with a larger number of service providers around the country whose mission is to provide the services, such as job training, social skills training, and financial training, that enable these people to regain employment and return to mainstream lives. The movement for these recently homeless is to first be housed in transitional living arrangements where they can learn these skills, to graduate to helped living in assisted living in affordable housing while they develop economic reserves and revamp their work resume, and afterward to graduate to full, "market rate housing". My knowledge of how many organizations there are for helping the homeless has changed and I didn't know that there were many that helped the homeless to recover and get a job or provide for