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causes of homelessness
Definition
- Like the villages in the following tale, America's first response to homelessness was to mobilize and confront the threat by targeting the immediate needs of the homeless: Early one morning, in a village located on the banks of a river, a woman walked to the river's edge and discovered, much to her horror, that the river was filled with baskets rushing downstream and that each basket held a baby. Aware of the danger the babies faced, she quickly ran back and mobilized the village's inhabitants. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Causes of Homelessness: Overview]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/causes_of_homelessness
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