How to improve Homelessness

Introduction
Homelessness is not new to our nation, and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. (Baum, 1-4) For growing numbers of people, work provides little, if any, protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are well-off. (Baum, 21-24)
What is homelessness? According to the definition stated by Stewart B. McKinney,
for purposes of the 1987 McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, "a homeless person (homelessness) is one who lacks a fixed permanent nighttime residence, or whose nighttime residence is a temporary shelter, welfare hotel, or any public or private place not designed as sleeping accommodations for human beings." (Baum, 8) A rather deceptive definition when one considers the fact that homelessness is not a natural state, but one created and maintained by political agendas.
Our government is not doing all that it can to combat our nation's homelessness.
In 1987, the......

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Title: Homelessness
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