Social Problems of Homelessness

Social Problem of Homelessness

03/19/2011

* Homelessness is a condition and category of people who lack housing, because they cannot afford or unable to maintain consistent safe, and adequate shelter. Homelessness in return can cause serious health problems that are closely associated with poverty, tuberculosis, malnutrition, severe dental problems and as a result devastate the homeless population. (The Medicine Program). People who experience homelessness are in desperate need of health care services, but most do not have the means to pay for medical care. A big part of that issue is associated with declining work opportunities.

* It’s a macro sociology that assumes that social behavior is best understood in conditions of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, such as in housing, money, access to services, and as we look at homelessness it’s just more evidence of an inhumane economic system. Conflict-theorists would most likely not consider homelessness, in itself, to be a problem whatsoever. They would cite capitalistic motives as being "the problem." A conflict theorist would claim that the reason the homeless problem persists is not because of a homeless individual's inability to advance oneself. Rather, the conflict theorist would conceive that the cause of homelessness stems from the capitalistic social classes that oppress those who cannot find a place to work or a physical address to call home (McMorrow-Hernandez, J., 2007). Therefore, when management denies employment to those who need employment there are two outcomes that can arise, such as those who are able to rise through that depression and those who fall into a state of homelessness.

* The lack of jobs and the pit falls of programs to increase employment effects the level of homelessness in society today. With inactive or falling incomes comes an increase in homelessness. Less secure jobs which offer fewer benefits also play a key factor in...