Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Working Poor
17 Feb 2017
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13005$ on bureaucracy less on bene ts for people. Paid work is not guarantee of an adequate family income many of the poor are actually employed. Working people living in poverty more likely to be young, immigrants, and single: homelessness. Simply the absence of a place to live. Absolute homelessness vs. relative homelessness: absolute no place to live/temp living in a shelter, relative home doesn"t meet certain standards (e. g. no running water, no toilet) Chronically homeless represent less than 20% of the homeless population. People become homeless for a variety of reasons: addiction, mental illness, lack of affordable housing, generation of poverty, injury, loss of a job, crisis. Cut backs on social housing; lack of low cost affordable housing: food insecurity. With cutbacks many more canadians are having to rely on food banks and feeding programs. In 2012, 1,900+ food programs in canada. 882,188 people received emergency food from these food banks in a one month period.
