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10 pages in length. Delving more deeply into the issue of homelessness compels one to focus upon more than merely one or two areas why such a social phenomenon continues to exist in contemporary society. From corporate downsizing to the cyclical nature of poverty and mental illness to spousal abuse, homelessness is representational of myriad social components that – even in the twenty-first century - are not being addressed in an effective manner. Agencies are content to pass the buck back and forth, while public perception is both skewed and intolerant of the reality, and legislation tries to fix the problem by creating a new Amendment. Wherein the answer might exist continues to elude all aspects of today's society. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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From corporate downsizing to the cyclical nature of poverty and mental illness to spousal abuse, homelessness is representational of myriad social components that - even in the twenty-first century
- are not being addressed in an effective manner. Agencies are content to pass the buck back and forth, while public perception is both skewed and intolerant of the
reality, and legislation tries to fix the problem by creating a new Amendment. Wherein the answer might exist continues to elude all aspects of todays society. "The past
decade has made clear that homelessness is not simply a passing phenomenon requiring heroic volunteer efforts on the part of a few until the temporary crisis passes. Yet that
has been the predominant response to the problem. Both politically and programmatically, and both in the individual case and at the social problem level, the tendency has been to
view the issue as a temporary phenomenon. The temptation is to think: If we can just get through...things will get back to normal. Many professionals working with the
homelessness problem realize that it is necessary to turn the comer from a temporary, emergency response to a long-range strategy. Both social responsibility and realism require it" (Hambrick et
al, 1998, p. 28). II. HOMELESSNESS AS A SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEM Various reasons exist for homelessness, including corporate downsizing and cutbacks, as
well as a reflection of how spousal abuse has reached epidemic proportions; escaping an abusive relationship is "one of the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute
their homelessness. Families with children, who represent forty percent of the growing masses of homeless people, are often the most victimized of all those having no place to call
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