Globally, the statistics on homelessness continue to grow. In the United States, over one million children and families are experiencing homelessness (National Center on Family Homelessness, America's youngest outcasts: state report card on child homelessness. Author, Newton. Retrieved from www. fa...
London and the north west of England had the highest number of deaths of homeless people, ONS said in its new study. London had more than one-fifth (23 percent) of the estimated total number of homeless deaths in England and Wales. In contrast, Wales had fewer deaths than any of the r...
In recent years, poverty, inequality situations and social exclusion have increased in Spain, becoming the highest in the European Union [1]. The last Spanish Survey on Centres and Services to Support Homeless People showed an increase of 20.5%, in the average daily number of homeless people wh...
Jatin Rastogi5 and Binta Sultan7 Abstract Aims People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have been identified as being increasingly susceptible to Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with policies enacted to test, isolate, increase hygiene practices and prioritise vaccines among this populati...
Why does the US spend money on foreign aid when we have poor and homeless people here at home?Unite states Foreign AidThe global transfer of goods, capital or services from an international entity or nation to benefit a recipient is termed as foreign aid. It m...
Nearly 568,000 people are homeless (living in homeless shelters, on the streets, or in other places not meant for human habitation) on any given night in the US. The majority of people who experience homelessness do so for limited periods of time, though some people experience chronic homele...
It is important to note that these numbers do not account for the hidden homeless - with Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, women, youth, and 2SLGBTQ+ people underrepresented in the statistics as they are more likely to be part of the hidden homeless (Braimoh et al., 2023; Harter et...
The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of overdose, knowledge of responses to overdose events, and willingness to call emergency medical services in response to overdose among people who use drugs in Cape Town, Durban, and Pretoria (South Africa). Methods:We used convenience...
Turning statistics into people: from sick talk to the politics of solidarity Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the politics of homelessness by discussing the predominance of "sick talk" in addressing homelessness. In the literature review, I contend that the neoliberalizing of homelessness...
I could go on here. Just because these people don't want to see babies mutilated in the womb doesn't make them fodder for slander by pragmatic pundits such as yourself. Hillary, Bill, Al and the gang would never tolerate a pro-life veep or Supreme Court justice, because they...