It becomes harder to find housing near a place of work or in a safe area. Healthcare is very expensive, but many people are uninsured or underinsured.
This means spending large amounts of money on healthcare while struggling to pay for rent, food, and utilities.
It can also mean neglecting routine checkups and procedures, leading to higher medical costs down the road. One serious injury or accident could push an individual or family into homelessness. On a global scale, poverty is one of the most significant root causes of homelessness. Stagnant wages, unemployment, and high housing and healthcare costs all play into poverty.
To address homelessness effectively, governments and organizations need to address poverty. The two-way connection between mental health, addiction, and homelessness is clear. Having a mental illness or addiction makes a person more vulnerable to homelessness and makes it more difficult to find permanent housing. A lack of stable housing also exacerbates mental health and addiction issues. More than one in three people sleeping rough have been deliberately hit or kicked or experienced some other form of violence whilst homeless.
Homeless people are over nine times more likely to take their own life than the general population. People become homeless for lots of different reasons. There are social causes of homelessness, such as a lack of affordable housing, poverty and unemployment; and life events which push people into homelessness. People are forced into homelessness when they leave prison, care or the army with no home to go to.
Many women experiencing homelessness have escaped a violent or abusive relationship. Many people become homeless because they can no longer afford the rent. And for many, life events like a relationship breaking down, losing a job, mental or physical health problems, or substance misuse put people under considerable strain.
Being homeless can, in turn, make many of these problems even harder to resolve. However, in nearly all cases homelessness is preventable and in every case it can be ended. To find out more about the factors that contribute to homelessness please read:. There is no national figure for how many people are homeless across the UK. This is because homelessness is recorded differently in each nation, and because many homeless people do not show up in official statistics at all.
Crisis carries out an annual study in response to concerns that many people experiencing homelessness are not being accurately recorded in official statistics. On any given night, tens of thousands of families and individuals are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness across Great Britain, this includes over , households in England alone. The Homelessness Monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK.
Rough sleeping is the most visible and dangerous form of homelessness, and when most people think of a homeless person they tend to think of someone sleeping rough on the streets. The longer someone experiences rough sleeping the more likely they are to face challenges around trauma, mental health and drug misuse.
Local authorities have a duty to secure a home for some groups of people. Decline in Public Assistance. The declining value and availability of public assistance is another source of increasing poverty and homelessness.
Federal and state cuts have affected those in our communities without other resources. Domestic Violence.
Battered women who live in poverty are often forced to choose between abusive relationships and homelessness. Mental Illness. Mental illness is becoming a rapid reality in this country and our community as well. It is a significant contributor to homelessness. This often results in pushing away caregivers, family, and friends who may be the force keeping that person from becoming homeless.
When faced with the need to leave their family home, young people often have little option but to end up on the streets. The causes of homelessness are numerous and complex.
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