SOCIOL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Civic Center, Musical Chairs, Housing First
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The characteristics, causes, and costs of homelessness in orange county. Organizations in oc and throughout ca thought it would be helpful if someone conducted the costs of living on the streets. Wanted the costs of street homeless vs housed homeless. From an economic standpoint it is cost effective to house homeless. Secondary objective: to construct a profile of the demographic and biographic correlates associated with the different categories of homelessness and housing, and to illuminate the causes of homelessness. Who counts as a homeless person? living/sleeping in public or privates places not intended for human habitation -- sidewalks, building alcoves, alleys, under bridges, abandoned buildings, parks, weed patches (often called "sleeping rough") Evicted from their homes, discharged from an institution like a hospital or a prison, or are living/sleeping in vehicles -- cars, vans, campers fleeing domestic/sexual violence and cant find housing. Spending a few nights in a seedy motel or hotel with no place to go.
