HOMELESSNESS

Victor Sanchez presents:

HOMELESSNESS

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1. Concept

5. Challenges

2. Types

7. Initiatives

3. Causes

7. Recomendation

4. Statistics

8. Bibliography

cONCEPT APROACH

WHAT IS HOMELESSNESS?

FIRST DEFINITION McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986

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Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987

(1) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence; (2) An individual who has a primary night-time residence that is: - A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary livingaccommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelter, and transitional housing forthe mentally ill) - An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to beinstitutionalized; or - A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleepingaccommodations for human beings.

Stewart B. McKinney

Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act (2009)

• Also called by its acronym HEARTH
• Amendment to the previous McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987.
• Main objective: optimize federal homelessness assistance programs focusing on prevention, expanding definitions, supporting rapid re-housing, promoting local planning, and incorporating performance measurement.
• Signed in 2009 while Barack Obama was president.

Barack Obama 44th President of USA.

TYPES OF HOMELESSNESS

Types of Homelessness

Categories analized by Kuhn and Culhane(1998)

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TYPES

2. episodic HOMELESSNESS

1. transitional homelessness

3. chronic HOMELESSNESS

• Homeless >1 year.
• Older individuals with complex, long-term health issues.
• Live on the street, parks, cars and other places that are not suitable/safe for living.

• 3 or more periods of homelessness in the previous year.
• Many of them are young people with heath/adiction issues.

• A person who has become homeless due to a major life change or catastrophic event.
• They are the most common type
• Tend to be younger people who stay at a shelter or temporary housing for a short period of time.

Causes

LEADING FACTORS

Lack of Affordable Housing

Economic Insecurity

Violence

HEALTH PROBLEMS

Chronic homeleses have a life expectancy 30 years shorter than the national average in USA.

In regions as LA, the poorest residents pay >50% percent of their incomes on rent

Low-income households frequently struggle to cover basic necessities including housing.

>80% of mothers with children homeless had suffer domestic violence.

Statistics

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Homeless Population per 10k total popularion

Sources: Office of Policy Developement and Research (PD&R), Ministerstwo Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE), Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, FENTASA

UPDATED SITUATION IN THE USA

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Total Homeless Population in Spain by age and gender

Sources: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE). Encuesta sobre las personas sin hogar 2022.

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Homeless population relation with substance use

Sources: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (INE). Encuesta sobre las personas sin hogar 2022.

Challenges and Barriers

Challenges and Barriers

Lack of Access to Healthcare

• Lack of insurance (USA)
• Transportation challenges

Environmental Challenges

• Heathwaves
• Storms
• Cold

Stigma and Stereotypes

• Lazy, irresponsable, dangerous...
• NIMBY

Economic obstacles

• Dificulties to save money
• Difficulties to get a job (needed to scape)

Initiatives

Calor y café (Heat and coffee)

• Located in Lanzarote, Canary Islands
• Founded in 1996

• It was created because of the increase of population and drug adiction crisis.
• This situation got worse after the 2008 (Real State Crisis) because of unemployment.
• Family tradition, fill a cart and donate it to Calor y Café every end ofsemester.

Sor Ana Calor y Café founder

THE HOMELESS WORLD CUP

"The Homeless World Cup is a football tournament with purpose. our year-round work culminates in a world class event which has the power to transform the lives of participants and shape attitudes towards homelessness."

Homeless World Cup logo

Short history

• Mel Young and Harald Schmied are the Co-founders.
• The Homeless World Cup concept was created in 2001
• It was celebrated for the first time 18 month later in 2003
• The first tournament was held in Austria

ViDEO

The Homeless World Cup is held for the first time in USA.

MY GOAL

MYTH OR REALITY

MYTH

REALITY

• Most of Homeless takes drugs
• Homeless are only elder men that are living in the streets
• When someone became homeless never return (chronic)
• The homeless wouldn't be able to recover if it weren't for NGOs and associations.

• More than 62% of Homeless have never take drugs
• There are homeless people of all ages who even work and live in shelters.
• Around 80% are transitionally homeless
• Majority of the transitionally homeless reconnect with family and friends without help.

Recomendation

LEAD ME HOME

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BiBLIOGRAPHY

BiBLIOGRAPHY

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519584/#ref_000355
2. https://nche.ed.gov/legislation/mckinney-vento/
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218239/
4. https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1877
5. https://www.homelessworldcup.org/
6. https://www.caringworksinc.org/did-you-know-there-are-four-types-of-homelessness/
7. https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/
8. https://www.gov.pl/web/rodzina/spada-liczba-osob-bezdomnych-w-polsce
9. https://www.ine.es/prensa/epsh_2022.pdf
10. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

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McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act

• Federal Law that helps homeless by financing "homeless shelter" programs.
• Signed by president Ronald Reagan in 1987.

Stewart McKinney death

McKinney died during the Homeless Assistance Act process. His death became controversial because he died from AIDS. The official version explains that he contracted AIDS due to a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Today there are many doubts surrounding his death and sexual life.

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Stewart McKinney death

McKinney died during the Homeless Assistance Act process. His death became controversial because he died from AIDS. The official version explains that he contracted AIDS due to a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Today there are many doubts surrounding his death and sexual life.