How Homelessness Affects Society

How does society affect our society then and today? Homelessness affects society in multiple ways. Everywhere you go there is always a homeless one in need. Homeless children suffer depression and anxiety from abandonment and other issues. There are ways that homelessness affects us that we do not know about. Let homelessness capture a meaning in every way. The government is also affected by homelessness paying for insurances, financial aid etc… The homeless should not be held with a label as menace to society, they are to be noticed and approached with help and aid. Abandonment plays a large role in society when it comes to homelessness. It affects our society but mostly the children who grow up not knowing their rights and wrongs.
Homeless single mothers often have histories of violent victimization. “Parents of young children might function under circumstances of homelessness.” States in South and South West where poverty is more prevalent have more homeless children than states in the North and North East. Homelessness affects children and their brain-development. “These families are often forced to choose between housing and other necessities for survival.” Teen parents are also at risk of homelessness as they lack education and income of adults who become parents. The current economic climate has made the labor market even less hospitable as many of them do not have more than a high school diploma or GED. “Homeless children lack stability in their lives with ninety-seven percent having moved at least once on an annual
Frequently references are made that homelessness as we know it today is rooted in severe HUD cuts in the early 1980s. While policy changes did have a large impact exacerbating the problem, homelessness has been documented in America since 1640. Most people are spending the night either in homeless shelters or in some sort of short-term transitional housing. Slightly more than a third are living in cars or under bridges or are in some other way living