I found out it wasn't as many homeless people in the 60's and 70's

[fbj]

Wonder why?

 

[Richard-H]

From what I remember homelessness soared under the Reagan administration. It was due to policies of his HUD dept..

I don't know the details, just a vague memory.

 

[bodecea]

From what I remember homelessness soared under the Reagan administration. It was due to policies of his HUD dept..

I don't know the details, just a vague memory.

Closing down the mental hospitals.

 

[TNHarley]

From what I remember homelessness soared under the Reagan administration. It was due to policies of his HUD dept..

I don't know the details, just a vague memory.

Closing down the mental hospitals.

putting crack in the streets..

 

[Gracie]

Communes. Free love and all that crap.

 

[del]

Communes. Free love and all that crap.

your ignorance is encyclopedic in scope

kudos

 

[Gracie]

Communes. Free love and all that crap.

your ignorance is encyclopedic in scope

kudos

Why, thank you, dickhead!

 

[TNHarley]

Reagan was a horrible President.

 

[del]

Reagan was a horrible President.

true

 

[del]

Communes. Free love and all that crap.

your ignorance is encyclopedic in scope

kudos

Why, thank you, dickhead!

my pleasure, pinny

 

[g5000]

Wonder why?

There weren't as many Americans in the 60s as there are today.

I wonder why...

 

[norwegen]

Wonder why?

Cuz now we have those homeless people plus their children.

 

[g5000]

In 2000, The National Alliance to End Homelessness published, “A Plan, Not A Dream: How to End Homelessness” which gives a very brief explanation of how homelessness developed: “While the seeds of homelessness were planted in the 1960s and 1970s with deinstitutionalization of mentally ill people and loss of affordable housing stock, widespread homelessness did not emerge until the 1980s.”

It lists several factors that affected the increase in homelessness:

• Lack of affordable housing.

• Income from employment and benefits not keeping pace with costs of available housing.

• Social trends, including illegal drugs, single parent households and “thinning support networks.”

Homelessness By The Numbers

 

[g5000]

More than 25 percent of the homeless are combat veterans.

Predominantly Vietnam.

 

[Sunni Man]

More than 25 percent of the homeless are combat veterans.

Predominantly Vietnam.

...........................................

 

[g5000]

More than 25 percent of the homeless are combat veterans.

Predominantly Vietnam.

...........................................

Study: Veterans more likely to be homeless - CNN.com

National Coalition for the Homeless

Veterans make up 1 in 4 homeless - USATODAY.com

 

[g5000]

Number of homeless vets rises for first time in seven years