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survival strategies  

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  • All people must negotiate ways to satisfy basic human needs, and homeless people are no exception. However, the homeless routinely face serious challenges to survival that housed people generally do not confront or at least not with the same degree of urgency. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Survival Strategies]

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