Posted on 12/28/2019 5:28:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Common life events that can cause homelessness
You’ve heard it before: the root cause of homelessness is the lack of affordable housing.
That’s still true. However, anyone can become homeless. Setting aside the structural factors and systemic failures, here are the most common individual causes of homelessness.
Because this is a more personal look at the subject, I’ve included examples of someone who became homeless in these various ways.
Eviction or Foreclosure
Unsurprisingly, losing your home can result in homelessness. It did for William when he lost his Detroit home to foreclosure in 2007 while undergoing treatment for colon cancer. It’s a huge change, and with the limited notice you’re sometimes given, it’s incredibly difficult to scrape together enough money for a security deposit along with first and last month’s rent. Rosalind is one such person who was evicted from her apartment and subsequently became homeless. That was four years ago now.
With housing prices rising across the country, many find themselves suddenly priced out of an apartment they’ve rented for years. Without the extra funds when prices increase by 50, 100, or even 200 percent, people must prepare for eviction.
Even worse, you may not even be given the option of paying ridiculously inflated rent. Your landlord may just decide to kick you out in order to sell the property for a hefty price. Or, he may turn your unit into a more lucrative, short-term vacation rental. This increase in malicious evictions is what led the UK government to ban no-fault evictions, though many individuals and families who became homeless as a result of these evictions in previous years are still without housing.
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The primary cause of homelessness is bad life choices.
There’s no doubt a lack of affordable housing will become increasingly problematic and factor more heavily in politics.
The major cause of homelessness is mental illness.
Mental illness released to the streets accounts for some. But most are dope, drink, laziness, and bad character.
I’m interested in this piece, but not tonight.
And as insane as it sounds, I think some do it because it’s fun and government makes it easy. Go to a coastal city, set up a tent, learn the local grift and feed centers. Then all day you get high, get drunk, wander around, sleep late. Go to the beach, whatever.
Lots just take the east way out and skip being responsible.
No, no.
The base reason is that it takes two to pay the bills.
Before, one employee was paid enough, after a while, to support a household.
Since women were put into the workforce to keep labor costs down it now takes two.
No room for error by the workers.
Having 1/9’th of Mexico’s population here doesn’t help either.
I agree. If we ever got a handle on addictive drugs, the situation would gradually be self-correcting. As for the mentally ill, they need institutional help which apparently many mayors and governors have eliminated.
Drug addiction.
Alcohol addiction.
Mental Health Illness and other Health Issues.
(Those are the same. one can have a heart attack, stroke, cancer or mental breakdown. They are all the same and largely beyond your control)
Being without family or friends.
Destroying any relationship you had with friends and family.
Free healthcare is also a part of the equation, especially in Blue states. The emergency rooms know all the frequent flyer homeless patients.
That said, excess housing regulations drive up the cost of housing.
What are we left with? Refugee camps?
The major cause of homelessness is mental illness....
Long-term drug abuse fries the brain.
“Mental illness released to the streets accounts for some. But most are dope, drink, laziness, and bad character.”
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What’s presented in this particular read it seems is mostly the problem of people being priced out of their homes, with rents escalating at breakneck pace. Cheap housing isn’t abundant as it was way back when.
I recall my dad renting one house back in the day for $285/month (in today’s dollars, about 40-50 bucks then), I don’t know how a families get by today.
Most of the causes of homelessness are within a person’s ability to have controlled them. A few of the causes are due to external events outside of their control.
By and large almost every person is the one that makes the vast majority of significant decisions that gets them to where they are.
That’s always been true.
Yet when workers were paid more the family could take care of their bad sheep, mostly.
Homelessness was just a problem in big cities.
Had a cousin: crazy and a crackhead.
Thenks to his mother’s paid-for house and generous pension and SS he got by. It was heart-breaking, but he got by.
Because his father made enough to sup[port a family.
,,,another factor!
Absolutely. Aside from a sudden MAJOR unforeseeable event, unpreparedness will put you out on the street faster than anything. And, practically all the examples given ARE NOT unforeseeable events. Just look at all the people living beyond their means from paycheck to paycheck with no savings and insufficient health insurance. They already have one foot out the door and then wonder how it could happen to them.
Mental illness followed by drug addiction.
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