Causes Of Homelessness In The United States

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Although there are children who enjoy living in houses, there are children who suffer from being homeless. Being a homeless child either you have family or no means that you have no place to stay, don’t know where to go, and experience the danger of life in the streets of United States. It is a problem that is growing continuously, as it is not easy to find a solution that can work successfully to live in a world that has no homeless children. The two causes of homelessness in the United States are mental illness, and economic crisis. And two effects which are stress, and bad education. A homeless shelter is a temporary solution which found to be failed in the United

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