Homelessness and Houselessness

We must take action now days because society does not realize that by ignoring the bad habits that people approach can present them as a spin of a coin and pass poe that needs. The issue of the quantitative extent of homelessness is often controversial and hotly debated at local, regional and national levels. There is a tendency for those responsible for policies and the funding of services to underestimate the extent in order to minimise public responsibilities and to keep the problem they are expected to deal with manageable. On the other hand, pressure groups tend to overestimate the number of homeless people in order to increase their political relevance and the resources made available to them.

The important point here is that one single number will not be enough to understand homelessness and to develop and monitor adequate policies to tackle it. If we take the different life situations of homeless people, we want to have not only a single indicator on the number of people experiencing such a situation at a given point in time or during a given period, but also indicators on how many people are becoming homeless and how many manage to end an episode of homelessness

As Edgar et al. (2007) emphasised, homelessness strategies should have a number of different aims – and more and more European governments have developed such comprehensive homelessness strategies, 7 setting concrete targets in fields of action such as:

• Prevention of homelessness.

• Tackling the causes of homelessness.

• Reducing the level of homelessness.

• Reducing the negative effects on homeless people and their families.

• Ensuring that formerly homeless people can sustain permanent independent housing

(Mendieta Villamar, 2016)