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1**.Handgrage, Brie. "State of the Homeless." __TheTimesNews.com__. 29 March 2008. 28 September 2010. <[]>.**

-In 2007 Alamance Country looked over the strength and weaknesses in the homeless community.

-According to the count of the local homeless community in January 2007, there were 85 men, 27 women , 17 children.

-Community Diagonsis report found that men are 3 times more likely to become homeless then singal women are.

-Nearly half of single women and children become homless because of domestic obuse.

This source is helpful before i use to think that women are more homeless then men now i have a better understanding of why men are more likely to being homeless then women and children.

2**."Homeless Public School Student (california only) :2008"__kidsdata.org__. 28 September 2010.**
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-HUD defines homelessness as living in shelters or areas not designed for human habitation.

-The number and percentage of homeless people in families is collected by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

-The most recent national estimates in 2005-2006 indicate that approximately 1.5 million children ages 0-18 in the U.S. one in 50 were homeless, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness.

-Adolescents tend to become homeless because of family and/or financial problems, and family residential instability. In addition to the risks faced by homeless children, youth without homes are far more likely than their housed peers to be infected with HIV.

__ 3.**Mostrous,** **[|Alexi]**__ **"More Familis Are Becoming Homeless" __The Washington Post"__ 12 July 2009 14 October 2010.**
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Last year, we saw a 34 percent increase in homeless families and a 24 percent increase in homeless children.

In real terms, homelessness is still concentrated in urban areas and among adult males

The typical homeless person has changed to become less focused on the chronically homeless or single-individual homeless to somebody who is part of a family.

4.**Mechelen,Van Rod " Homelessness" __Backflash.__ 1991, 1992. 14 October 2010.**
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As unemployed and under-employed men, **and the women whom they do not support**, fill the ranks of "persons living below the poverty level,"

Female domination of Human Resource and Labor Relation management may exacerbate this problem

As men have generally been, and generally remain, the primary breadwinners, this was, for the vast majority, not a problem

5.**Gina "How Ordinary People Become Homeless__" News__ 11 July 2006 20 October 2010.**
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The homeless people wasnt always homeless, for example if they live in an apartent. Some people have the worst landlord also know as Slumlords. who would just be very unreasonable. Make the tenants pay extra for no reason thats one of the ways to go homeless. Just putting money out when theres no reason.

They use the law to hurt the ones that never did anything to them until they decide to fight back. "They" are slumlords and the ones they hurt are tenants.

Slumlords just takes the tenants' money without doing what needs to be done.

The homeless people wasnt always homeless, for example if they live in an apartent. Some people have the worst landlord also know as Slumlords. who would just be very unreasonable. Make the tenants pay extra for no reason thats one of the ways to go homeless. Just putting money out when theres no reason.

6.**[|Martha R. Burt], [|Carol Pearson], [|Ann Elizabeth Montgomery] "Strategies for Preventing Homelessness" __Urban Institute__ 9 Feb. 2006 20 October 2010 []**

This study suggests that a number of elements contribute to homelessness prevention and a number of promising prevention activities exist.

To close the front door of entry into homelessness, the central challenge of prevention is targeting our efforts toward those people that will become homeless without the intervention

In 2003, HUD contracted with Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc., and its subcontractor, the Urban Institute, to conduct an exploratory study to identify communities that have implemented effective and well-targeted community-wide homelessness prevention activities.

7.**Culhane,Dennis "Five myths about America's homeless" __The Washington Post__ 11 July 2010 21 October 2010http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070902357.html**

The most common length of time that someone is homeless is one or two days, and half the people who enter the homeless shelter system will leave within 30 days, never to return.

As a result, many people falsely concluded that an increase in homelessness in the 1980s resulted from the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s.

When homelessness became a national epidemic in the 1980s, reformers responded with emergency shelters that were meant to be temporary havens.

People who haven't had a private residence in years have succeeded in these new "housing first" programs, which place the homeless directly into their own housing units

Our preliminary data also suggest that about a third of the chronically homeless eventually end up working, thanks, quite likely, to substance-abuse recovery.

President-elect Obama understands the economy will only get back on track if we end the foreclosure crisis.
 * 8.Colvin,Ross " Family homelessness rising in the United States" __reuters.com.__12 November 2008 . 26 October 2010**
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It is a quandary that will require help for the overall economy to aid people who slide into homelessness because they lose their jobs. Measures will also be needed to address the mortgage crisis

Families are taking over homeless shelters across america day by day.

The U.S. Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill in July that sets aside $3.9 billion that can be used partly by local authorities to buy foreclosed properties. Those could potentially house homeless families.

9.**Vestal,Christine "States cope with rising homelessness"__stateline.org__ 18 March 2009. 26 October 2010** New York City saw a 40 percent rise in families seeking shelter since the recession began.
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It’s one of the most alarming aspects of the economic crisis: State officials are seeing levels of homelessness they have never seen before.

By the time a family shows up in a shelter, they’ve done everything possible to avoid homelessness – stayed with friends and family members, gone without food and sold their possessions.

Obama has a plan to put $1.5 million in addressing the problem, but its still not going to be enough.

The United Way examined the costs of four formerly homeless adults who had been moved into apartments and given access to support services.
 * 10.Raymond,Joise" It Can't Be Said Enough, Housing Is Cheaper Than Homelessness" __change.org__ 24 October 2010 . 26 October 2010 **
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Its said to be cheaper to place a Homeless person in a apartment then for them to be homeless.that it's cheaper to house a chronically homeless individual period than it is to leave that person on the streets.

During that time period, two of the four had gone through detox six times costing $23,382. Two of the four had been hospitalized at a cost of $20,250.

The total cost of four people living chronically homeless in L.A. was $187,288. The same four people, over two years in permanent supportive housing, cost $107,032.

Those who are homeless often have trouble finding a job because they lack an address and phone number, have long periods of unemployment, have a criminal record, or lack transportation to and from work.
 * 11. Cooper,Jennifer"Atlanta Councilman Urges Colleagues to Hire the Homeless" __Change .org__ 20 october 2010 . 26 October 2010 **
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First Step and similar programs not only help those who are homeless to get off the street, but they provide the tools necessary to stay off the street.


 * 12. The streets " Obama Sets Deadline to End Homelessness"__Newsweek.__ 04 Aug 2010. 3 October 2010**
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President Obama plans to end homelessness or at least reduce it in the next decade.


 * 13.Hennock,Mary "Hurting and Homeless" __Newsweek,__ 14 May 2008. 5 Oct 2010**
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Overall, more than 25,000 people are believed to be still trapped in the rubble left by the 7.9 quake.

Across the city, most buildings look intact at first glance, but large cracks spidering across walls have driven most locals to sleep on the street.

Another mourner let off firecrackers, a traditional way to prevent evil spirits gathering round a corpse.

Some locals complained that they could help set up shelters to dig for survivors but have not been asked.


 * 14. The Street "** **Five Years After Katrina, Still Homeless" __Newsweek__ 23 Aug 2010 . 05 Nov 2010**
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they have been struggling for five years since then to find home again

The family took shelter there, initially staying with relatives and starting what would become a burdensome routine of jumping from one temporary residence to the next.

During the first few weeks, they spent their days in the Astrodome scrounging for supplies and their nights cramming into a relative’s apartment.

The year after the storm hit, the population of New Orleans dropped by more than half from 455,188 to a little more than 200,000. the King family is among hundreds of residents who still live in emergency assistance trailers, waiting for grants to come through so they can move into a permanent residence Homeless people with jobs are going to have to start paying the city rent to stay in shelters. Shelter residents will pay up to 44 percent of their income in their first year in the program So the city will be discouraging the homeless from getting a job, by penalizing them for doing so. If city shelters are overcrowded, why doesn&apos;t Bloomberg just take a few million dollars of his money.
 * 15.Adler, Ben "Stupid Idea of the day: Tax the Homeless" __Newsweek__ 14 April 2010. 05 Nov 2010**
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16. Employment and Poverty Among the Homeless - Unemployment

Read more: [|Employment and Poverty Among the Homeless - Unemployment - Labor, Rate, Families, Statistics, Bureau, and People] [] 