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What causes a person to become homeless?

Relationship breakdown or substance abuse, can lead to homelessness as well as family background issues like disputes, sexual and physical abuse from parents or guardians

Due to that many kids want to leave their homes at a young age to escape the abuse they get on a daily basic.

A long time spent on the streets can see people adapt to the lifestyle of being on the streets. This can lead to a habit.

Drug overdose is currently the leading cause of death among people who are homeless.

Many cases adverse life events such as a health issue, the loss of a job, or the need to escape a domestic violence.

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https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/how-do-people-become-homeless/
https://www.seattle.gov/homelessness/the-roots-of-the-crisis

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Walk past a homeless person on the street and the assumption for many is that "they got there by their own doing". The reality is often quite different.

Every homeless person has a different journey, often harrowing and traumatic, and the reasons why people end up without a secure and stable home are myriad and diverse.

Often they can be completely out of the person's control.

What causes a person to become homeless?

Individual factors, such as a lack of qualifications, relationship breakdown or substance abuse, can lead to homelessness as well as family background issues like disputes, sexual and physical abuse from parents or guardians or a previous experience of family homeless.

Sometimes the problems that lead to homelessness come are systemic and have very little to do with an individual's actions. A lack of support for those leaving care, the armed forces, prison or even hospital can leave someone with nowhere to go apart from the streets.

And larger social and economic problems can also cause homelessness. The Covid-19 pandemic's disruption to the jobs market and economy threatens to cause rising homelessness. Chancellor Rishi Sunak estimated that it will cause an unemployment peak of 2.6 million people out of work while confirming that the economy had slumped 11.5 per cent during the 2020 Spending Review.

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How do people become homeless? - The Big Issue

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Walk past a homeless person on the street and the assumption for many is that "they got there by their own doing". The reality is often quite different. Every homeless person has a different journey, often harrowing and traumatic, and the reasons why people end up without a secure and stable home are myriad and diverse.

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The day Jeannette heard Brian crying for grandma Erma to let go of him in her bedroom and Jeanette saw what she was trying to do to him.Later on after they have fought Erma to let go of Brain they had realized why their dad never wanted to come back to Welch.Knowing that she had sexually abused Rex his whole life and that's why he turned out the way he is now.
"Do you think she ever did something to Dad like what she did to Brian?" I asked. (page 148).
Jeanette was impacted by this event knowing the truth about why her dad never wanted to come to Welch.That’s why he is always on the run, drinking, no job, and does not have a study life due to the trauma he had to go through
when he was younger.

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Jeannette’s dad never had a steady job that’s why they always had to be on the run, couldn’t pay the rent to their house, had to move in with Erma,had to starve, didn’t have clothes, and at this point they were homeless.The odd jobs that Rex made money of didn’t last long because he would spend them on alcohol.On the other hand her mom couldn’t keep up with her job and quit shortly after.
“Then he got fired from his second job and from his third,and was kicked out of the electricians’ union and started doing odd jobs and day worl.” (Page 110)
This is not only impact Jeannette but it also impacted her siblings as well. Both of their mom and dad were capable of having a steady job but they choose not to.They had to eat from the trash,had no clothes,had to start working at a young age to survive,and we’re made fun of. This will cause trauma in their life knowing that their parents could have changed their life but didn’t.

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Jeannette family were never able to stay in one home they always moved from one place to another.Over time Jeannette and her siblings moved to New York and stayed in a steady home but their parents were unable to keep a job and stayed in the streets which lead them to becoming homeless.
“ By the following summer, Mom and Dad were heading into their third year on the streets.”(page 264)
Jeannette was impacted by this event knowing that her parents had no place to go but the streets due to the choices they had made.Even though Jeannette chose a different path in life and became successful but seeing parents on the streets made her feel a shamed.

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Many people who are homeless struggle with finding food on a daily basis. Most of the time they don’t eat unit they find food in the trash or other people offer them some.Jeannette and her siblings had to struggle with hunger throughout their whole childhood the only way for them to survive was to work, take food from the trash,eat other kids leftovers, expired foods, and sometimes they would not have anything to eat.
Jeannette overcome this by working at a young age to provide food for her and her siblings. She never gave up as soon as she moved to New York she had started working and making money to the point where she and her siblings could have a full meal and not worry about where the other one would come from.

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Many people adopt to living on the streets due to them losing their home or becoming homeless and most of the time many they don’t want to change.Jeannette’s mom and dad always been moving from one place to another and not wanting to work to the point where they became homeless.But in this case Jeanette did not want to become like them she had made a successful path for herself to have a steady job and a home.
Jeannette overcame this by becoming successful herself even though she came from a very poor family who we’re homeless most of the time. She broke this path by not livein the same way her parents did and become a famous writer.