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A homeless man in Paris, France.
Homelessness is the condition and social category of people without a regular house or dwelling because are otherwise unable to acquire, maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."
The term homelessness may also include people whose primary night-time residence is in a homeless shelter, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
The actual legal definition of "homeless" varies from country to country, or among different entities or institutions in the same country or region.
The "unsheltered" are that segment of the homeless who do not have ordinary lawful acess to buildings in which to sleep. Such persons frequently prefer the term "houseless" to the term "homeless". Others may use the term street people which does not fully encompass all unsheltered in that many such persons do not spend their time on urban "street" environments, and to the contrary shun such locales and prefer mountains or, more often, lowland meadows, creeks and beaches.
Although The Bowery once was synonymous with homelessness, it has since become an avenue of high-priced luxury condominiums that jockey for space with its past.
A homeless person’s shelter.
Homeless person with dogs playing the recorder, Downtown Amsterdam, 2009.
Sleeping homeless person in the corner of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, 2010
Homeless street dwellers in Mumbai, India.
A homeless person’s shelter under a fallen willow tree in Australia.
Homelessness by country
- Homelessness in Australia
- Homelessness in Canada
- Homelessness in England
- Homelessness in Iraq
- Homelessness in Israel
- Homelessness in Japan
- Homelessness in Scotland
- Homelessness in the United States
- In Sweden, on the paper homelessness should not exist, since the municipalities have the duty to provide a home to everyone who don’t have one. However, the apartment building owners have the right to select guests among applicants. Owners (including municipality owned) avoid homeless people, unemployed people or people with bad credit score. People who don’t pay their rent will be evicted, also child families. In 2009, 618 children were evicted. In cities with lack of housing, the only availability for homeless are usually shelters, usually privately owned, often of bad quality, for which municipalities pay.
See also
- Statelessness
- Deinstitutionalization
Other itinerant or homeless people or terms for this condition
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