The Cost Of Living

By: Joe Letizio

Preview
• Who Is homeless?
• What causes homelessness?
• What can be done?
Who Is Homeless?
• 20% of Adolescence
• 25-40% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual
• 26 % Females
• 74% males
• 40% of men are veterans
• 1/3 have severe addictive disorders
• 16% have severe mental health disorders
• 1% of population will be homeless at some point during each year (3,000,000)
• On any given day between 400,000 and 800,000 are homeless
What causes Homelessness?

• Foreclosures
• Low incomes
• Mental health problems/Addiction problems
• Domestic violence
• Lack of coordinated health care system
• Poverty increasing due to:
• Increasing unemployment
• Decreasing wages
• Decreasing Public Assistance
 What Can Be
Done?

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Review
• Who Is homeless?
• What causes homelessness?
• What can be done?
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