Why it’s so hard to end homelessness in America
2024年1月24日 · Scholars, healthcare workers, and homeless advocates agree that two major contributing factors are poverty and a lack of affordable housing, both stubbornly intractable societal challenges. But they add that hard-to-treat psychiatric issues and substance-use disorders also often underlie chronic homelessness.
Homelessness and Public Health: A Focus on Strategies and …
Many of the articles in this Special Issue focus on specific aspects of life, quality of life, and co-morbidities related to behavioral and social variables influencing homelessness. Explored in detail are factors such as lack of housing, distress, wellness, emergency department use, mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, poverty, low ...
Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence ... - Health Affairs
2024年2月5日 · In this overview, we highlight structural and individual risk factors that can lead to homelessness, explore evidence on the relationship between homelessness and health, discuss programmatic...
Homelessness in the U.S. hit a record high last year : NPR
2023年12月15日 · Homelessness in America spiked last year, reaching a record high, according to an annual count that provides a snapshot of one night in January. The report, released today by the department of...
America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Getting Worse - The New York Times
2022年7月15日 · America’s homelessness problem has the makings of an acute crisis. Shelters across the U.S. are reporting a surge in people looking for help, with wait lists doubling or tripling in recent...
US homelessness hits highest level as rents have soared - CNN
2023年12月16日 · Homelessness grew by 12% in 2023 from last year, meaning 70,650 more people were unhoused. As housing in the US has become increasingly unaffordable over the past few years, the number of people...
Chronic homelessness is at an all-time high. Here’s why it ... - PBS
2023年12月22日 · More than 143,000 individuals were estimated to have experienced chronic homelessness — a group that includes people with disabilities who have experienced homelessness for more than a year —...
Opinion | Voices from Inside America’s Homelessness Crisis - The …
2024年2月21日 · A record number of people across the country are experiencing homelessness: the federal government’s annual tally last year revealed the highest numbers of unsheltered people since the count...
How Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis | Harvard Magazine
Recent research finds homelessness is increasing among older adults; and longstanding structural racism means that people of color are disproportionately homeless. Black Americans are overrepresented more than threefold.
4 reasons why homelessness keeps going up : NPR
2023年7月12日 · Advocacy groups and researchers say a big driving force is the decline of affordable housing, a problem decades in the making but one that has grown significantly worse in the past few years. Here...
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