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Peter Plozay
Mrs. Klemme
Language Arts 2
13 Dec. 2017
Homelessness
Many homeless people never live past the age of 62. This is usually caused by small, manageable health issues that are unnecessarily made worse by their bad living conditions and care. Homelessness is an often overlooked issue in our society. Homelessness affects many people from the young to the old; there are a plethora of organizations trying to better the lives of these people, but they need our help. …show more content…
While this is the general definition, there are actually three different types of homelessness. The first kind is called chronic homelessness, this is what most people think of when they hear the word “homeless”. Someone who is chronically homeless has no home and cannot get out of the shelter system,often people who are chronically homeless also suffer from disabilities and or drug abuse and are typically of older age. Even though this is the stereotype “homeless guy”, chronically homeless people actually make up very little of the overall homeless