What is homelessness for kids

That person or family sleeps outdoors or in a shelter. Outdoors, homeless people may sleep in a car or in a structure not meant to be used as a dwelling space a barn, for example ,. Homelessness can also refer to those who do not have permanent homes because of their jobs.

In the United States, people in this category have included cowboys, loggers, fishermen, and migrant farmworkers. Refugees may also think of themselves as homeless even when they have new places to live. This happened in the United States, during the Great Depression of the 's. About 1 million people moved to California from the Midwest as the result of hard economic times.

There are millions of homeless people around the world. But specific figures are hard to come by. The United States is the only country that attempts to carefully count the number of homeless people. But even in the United States, statistics can be unclear. That is because homeless people can be very difficult to find unless they are living in shelters. The number of people who are homeless can also vary from day to day.

If we ask how many adults are homeless in the United States on a particular night, the answer is probably about , However, the number of adults who are homeless at some time during an entire year is closer to 1 million.

This includes about , children. It is unrealistic, she believes, to expect stressed-out homeless families to navigate the fragmented human service system to try to get help for their traumatized children at the same time they are trying to find stable housing and employment. This article was originally published as a Voices from the Field Blog to highlight the theme of Housing.

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