Before this unit I thought that the majority of homeless people have a mental illness and now I think that the cause of homelessness is also caused by natural disasters, lack of affordable housing, unemployment, and many more cases. The teenager living in Las Vegas whose mother left him in Storied Streets was the most impactful part about my learning in the homelessness unit. When I was listening to his story, I realized that not only adults become homeless, but minors, a few years older than us, can come to be homeless. The thought that a teenager was living in their own school was difficult to comprehend. I want to learn why the population for homeless children has been increasing while homelessness for adult population has been decreasing
