What is the cost of homelessness. The main reason why homelessness is happening today is because of poverty, health, substance abuse, and lots other similar reasons. Poverty, poverty means a state of being poor. Poverty can happen when people don’t have a good job which usually leads to educational …show more content…
Mental disorder, mental disorder is a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual. If you can’t work because of your disability which also mean if you don’t work, then you also don’t get paid because no one would want to pay someone if they don’t work. Alcohol abuse means that if you misuse alcohol. An example of alcohol misuse is drinking 5 bottle of wine per day by yourself. It can lead to homeless because if you keep on drinking over and over again how do you think you are gonna be able to work. Imagine this, you are a boss in your company and you have this worker that keeps getting drunk and is also hitting people. Do you think you want him to work in your company? If you have a family member that keeps drinking and is constantly getting angry while beating everyone up, would you like that? “While prevailing stereotypes may dismiss much of the homeless as drug addicts and/or alcoholics, there is a true chicken-or-egg causative relationship between homelessness and addiction. Does addiction cause homelessness, or does homelessness cause addiction?”(michael pg1)This is an example of alcohol abuse. I only named the three main reason that people are going homeless and their also lots of other ways of going