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Hannah McAbee
Lecturer D. Jizi
UWRT 1104-014
9 April 2017

Double Entry Journal for forth source

Citation: Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs. Washington D.C: National
Academy Press, 1988.Internet resource
There have always been homeless people in Why is this?
the United States
Again, why? Why was the public not
In the past decade, the problem of interested before?
homelessness has increasingly captured
public attention
Definition of homeless: an individual who I agree with this definition.
lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate
People go in and out of homelessness so
nighttime residence
often that it makes it really difficult to
Not only do people move in and out of count them
homelessness but the methodological
problems involved in counting people
without a fixed residence are formidable I think this is true because everyone has
their own reasons for being homeless
Homeless people are a diverse and varied
and everyone is different
group in terms of age, ethnicity, family
circumstances, and health problems Going along with what I said above, I
think that anyone and everyone can be
To make the needs of homeless people
homeless so that is why this article broke
more understandable, we describe several
them into subgroups so they could talk
subgroups separately: individual adult men
about each group individually
and women, families with children, youths,
the elderly, and people in rural areas. Why is this? Does this mean anything
significant?
Homeless adults are likely to never have
been married
Individual homeless men and women have I thought that those numbers would
an average age of between 34 and 37 have been lower because at that age
they should have jobs and can care for
Minorities are overrepresented among
themselves
homeless people in the nations larger
cities I agree with this 100%
The proportion of homeless people with a
high school diploma has increased during
I think this is a good thing, it just needs
the past 25 years

Of 6,342 homeless veterans contacted,
98.6 percent were men and 1.4 were
women
The fastest growing subgroup among the
homeless population consists of families
with children
The vast majority of homeless families are
headed by women
Homeless mothers tend to be in their late
20s
The percentage of elderly people among
the homeless population is less than that
among the general population
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It is crazy enough that our veterans are
homeless. In my opinion, females tend
to leave or cheat on their husbands
while they are gone off to war and
when they get back they have nothing
and that is why I think the percentages
fall like that.
I can see that because children are very
expensive
This confused me because I really
didnt think about that. Women are
normally seen as the caregivers so I
guess that is why
I would say this is because they are
young and cant afford their children
This is a good thing. That means more
elderly people have homes!