Homelessness During the past decade, most Americans seemed to believe that homelessness was a new phenomenon caused by the combination of regressive governmental policies and the recession of the early 1980s. The truth is that homelessness is not new, nor are our efforts to respond to it substantially different from those of our forebears. Throughout history, society has been confronted by the problem of homelessness through, beggars, the dependent poor, the unemployed, and the unemployable. …showed first 75 words of 1063 total…

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