Poverty And Homelessness

According to the study that presented by the National Law Center on homelessness and poverty there is 3.5 million people with 1.35 million of them are children, most found themselves unemployed and not being able to pay the mortgages or rent, and had no other choice but to live on the streets or moved in with his friends or family. The growing shortage of housing that is affordable and the huge increase poverty and joblessness is the reason why families and children are homeless, children under the age of eighteen account for little more than a third of homeless population, although it seems crazy homeless children are more likely to experience obesity due to the nutritional deficiencies(Bringle 5-25). One any given night, more than
300,000 children become homeless, the main reason people think that people could be homeless would be the chronic events that happen in someone’s life, but it is a lot more complicated than just that, most of the homeless ones got that way maybe because of a series of events that was unexpected and unplanned for. Reasons would be maybe; loss of loved one, violence, divorce, poverty, etc. With families that have trouble paying their bills or maybe medical costs could cause lowering in funds which could lead them live on the streets and lose everything they have. Another cause of homelessness could be natural disasters causing families to be forced out of their houses and pushed to the streets(homeaid).