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Understanding the Cause of Homelessness
Title: Understanding the Cause of Homelessness
Category: Literature / English
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Understanding the Cause of Homelessness
"Being homeless is often defined as sleeping on the streets. Although this is the most visible and severe form of homelessness, there are many other types of acute housing need. These include living in temporary accommodation, poor or overcrowded conditions, or being in mortgage arrears and under threat of re-possession." (Hope 1986) It is a symptom of many complex problems: mental illness, emotional instability, illiteracy, chronic substance abuse, unemployment, and, most basic of all, breakdown of …showed first 75 words of 1660 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1660 total…Faces of Homelessness. Lexington, MA: Lexington
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