If you see a homeless person with an animal on the street, do you provide some type of donation, walk away and ignore them, or criticize that person for keeping an animal? Homelessness is the state of being without a home or lacking permanent housing. Homelessness is a worldwide problem that increased noticeably in the 1980s (“Grolier”). Many of these people own pets that they didn’t want to give up after becoming homeless. Even though it may seem like an irresponsible choice considering the situation they are in, these people are able to provide for their animals as much as a housed person could. In this paper, you will read about the three main causes of homelessness. This paper will introduce key causes of homelessness and causes of change
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The information found was discovered on websites such as the Grolier database, Encyclopedia, PBS, Psychology Today, MNN, Homeless Hub, Pacific Standard, and Everyone Deserves a Special Friend. Information was collected from these websites because they contained useful information about homelessness and pet homelessness (this term will refer to a homeless person that owns a pet). Significant information was found on Psychology Today, Everyone Deserves a Special Friend, Pacific Standard, Homeless Hub, and the Grolier database. This information was deemed useful and worthy because they contained mostly studies and unbiased facts about homeless people and their pets. Although information from the Homeless Hub website was not cited, its use was to back up information from the other aforementioned useful websites. The information found was proved trustworthy by checking testimonies made by other people and/or comparing information received from websites with other websites to see if the facts were accurate. Sites with information that were either unhelpful or unworthy were MNN and Encyclopedia because they either gave biased opinions or gave no information about both homeless people and their …show more content…
Sometimes, a homeless person’s situation can differ from others if they own a pet. For example, according to PBS, the definition of homelessness is the state of “lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence”. Causes of homelessness include lack of affordable housing, poverty, unemployment, substance (drug) abuse, mental illness, and other minor causes (“Facts and Figures”). One can see that homelessness is caused majorly by not being able to afford a house, being very poor, being unemployed, and taking drugs. This is significant because being without a home, money, a job, or sobriety can cause some people to face homelessness. Furthermore, some people forced into homelessness have furry family that they refuse to give up for few primary reasons. The causes of homelessness differ for pet owners than to that of regular homeless people. Dog-loving author Zazie Todd reports that a study of young homeless owning a dog or a cat showed that the participants made their pets their first priority, even if that meant suffering hardships themselves. These people would rather sleep on the streets instead of occupying shelters because they had the inability to find a shelter that also housed pets. Even though this hardship was caused by their animal, their pet was their only source of companionship and helped them overcome drug abuse and find some type of stable housing (Todd, Zazie). This data suggests that most
The information found was discovered on websites such as the Grolier database, Encyclopedia, PBS, Psychology Today, MNN, Homeless Hub, Pacific Standard, and Everyone Deserves a Special Friend. Information was collected from these websites because they contained useful information about homelessness and pet homelessness (this term will refer to a homeless person that owns a pet). Significant information was found on Psychology Today, Everyone Deserves a Special Friend, Pacific Standard, Homeless Hub, and the Grolier database. This information was deemed useful and worthy because they contained mostly studies and unbiased facts about homeless people and their pets. Although information from the Homeless Hub website was not cited, its use was to back up information from the other aforementioned useful websites. The information found was proved trustworthy by checking testimonies made by other people and/or comparing information received from websites with other websites to see if the facts were accurate. Sites with information that were either unhelpful or unworthy were MNN and Encyclopedia because they either gave biased opinions or gave no information about both homeless people and their …show more content…
Sometimes, a homeless person’s situation can differ from others if they own a pet. For example, according to PBS, the definition of homelessness is the state of “lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence”. Causes of homelessness include lack of affordable housing, poverty, unemployment, substance (drug) abuse, mental illness, and other minor causes (“Facts and Figures”). One can see that homelessness is caused majorly by not being able to afford a house, being very poor, being unemployed, and taking drugs. This is significant because being without a home, money, a job, or sobriety can cause some people to face homelessness. Furthermore, some people forced into homelessness have furry family that they refuse to give up for few primary reasons. The causes of homelessness differ for pet owners than to that of regular homeless people. Dog-loving author Zazie Todd reports that a study of young homeless owning a dog or a cat showed that the participants made their pets their first priority, even if that meant suffering hardships themselves. These people would rather sleep on the streets instead of occupying shelters because they had the inability to find a shelter that also housed pets. Even though this hardship was caused by their animal, their pet was their only source of companionship and helped them overcome drug abuse and find some type of stable housing (Todd, Zazie). This data suggests that most