The goal of the formation of this documentary is to raise over-all awareness of the precipitants of homelessness by presenting the human story behind the statistics. The interviewees identified a variety of causes including drug and alcohol use, family break-up and relocation which reflect what ...
We used descriptive statistics (SAS, version 9.4 [SAS Institute]) to understand trends in demographic characteristics, living situations, causes and locations of death, toxicology findings, and use of health and social services in the year prior to death. Results In the first year of the ...
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Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the sample overall and by suicide risk categories. We compare the psychosocial risk factors for the high- and moderate-risk group, relative to low-risk group, using Chi-squared tests for categorical variables and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for continuous...
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2020/ Google Scholar New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2021 New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Fifteenth Annual Report on Deaths Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness (July...
according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They now make up 31 percent of the nation’s homeless population” ( Nagourney para 4). Homelessness is rising in big cities such as; New york , Los Angeles , Honolulu and San Francisco due to the fact how expensive it is to...
Researchers and advocates from The Sentencing Project, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and two regional organizations based in Nashville and San Francisco sought to contextualize national and regional statistics with projects they’ve undertaken in specific ci...
evictions have risen by over 50% in some cities, like Houston and Minneapolis. Rents nationwide are 30% higher than in 2019, with inflation making it increasingly difficult to cover rent, food and energy expenses. Government statistics show landlords file to evict some 3.6 million people every ...
Even though we have seen some economic prosperity over the years, statistics show that the number of homeless remains very high. With this in mind, communities need to come together at the state, city, and individual level to come up with solutions to mitigate the spreading of this problem....
Given these statistics, we may ask, with Rossi (1989, p. 77), not why there are so many homeless people, but why there are so few. Instead of assessing deficits among those who become homeless, we should examine the resourcefulness of the many poor individuals and families who manage to...