Homelessness is a very large problem that America has come to face with.
children, families, babies, veterans, and the elderly live day by day without food, water, a roof over their .
head, or love. People that are mentally ill also have to tough it out on the streets, which can be very .
confusing to them, and dangerous to us. This problem must be solved soon, because it's not getting better .
fast enough. .
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Homeless people can be categorized into four basic categories, street families, lone, transient, or bums.
A person in a street family is usually a man and wife with one to many children living on the streets. A lone .
person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. A .
transient is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities .
by means of walking and hitch hiking. The one category that people assume all homeless fall into is the undeserving homeless, or .
"bums".
Many homeless people live on .
eating scraps of food from trash cans, and possible meals from shelters on occasion, but those are usually .
three times a week at dinner, or some other type of schedule. People who have homes rarely think, nor can .
comprehend what terrible things that the homeless have to go through. They live in abandoned buildings, .
cars, buses, boxes, on park benches and underground. They eat bits of old fruit and meat with the mold and .
green sludge scrapped off. Sometimes they lived on ketchup and mustard. .
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People think that all homeless people are those who sit around all day and do nothing. They don't try and .
help themselves or others. They lie and cheat and honestly deserve nothing because they could never give .
anything if they were forced to. They make up a very small group in fact, about 4% of all homeless.
There are some people who still have a spark of interest in finding jobs. They look for places to .
work, and they try to establish an address and connections.