The Prevention Policy for the Issue of Homelessness

Being homeless is a state when a person does not have anything to survive. When there is no shelter to live. According to sociology theory it is a serious issue in the world and our society. There are various causes behind these issue. Major causes to homelessness are Family disputes, imminent eviction, poor governmental policies, bad addiction, debt, and low level of education and mental health problems in people. These glitches can occur due to unemployment, low salary. Some of these problems denote to biographical difficulties among which social and personal conflict and subjective factors are accountable. Becoming homeless gives birth to lot of things like depression and other serious health issues (Testoni, Russotto, Zamperini & De Leo, 2018). Poverty is one of the biggest issue in the world and many countries are tackling with this issue casing homelessness. There are three articles chosen for the literature review based on homelessness. Which indicate there are various reasons and roots behind homelessness, possible steps are described, taken by government to prevent it in different countries. I will focus on the methods used in articles to figure out reasons and policies to stop homelessness at different levels.

To begin with in the first article case study is used to describe the homelessness and its prevention policies. In big countries many assurances toward homelessness are evident (Szeintuch, 2017). Different countries are dealing with it at different stages. Moreover, some countries taking it at primary prevention level and some broke it into three stages to tackle with it. Prevention policies to homelessness are explained using case study of Israel’s policies. It is described in the article that search indicate council of Europe’s European committee on social rights examined whether countries are ensuring the rights to housing or not. Six in the eight EU members state committee are failed to complete this fundamental. Those failed countries to ensure housing left people to live in inadequate accommodation. People waited years on social housing lists. Many faced increased debt levels and forced to eviction (Szeintuch, 2017). Based on these findings of search in Europe, North America and Australia the literature proposed the appropriate need to approach to design the solutions to homeless policy. On the contrary, there are problems listed standing in the way to homeless prevention. It is difficult to ensure that prevention has targeted in the ‘right’ population. Second thing is that prevention targeted in one country may be different in another. Consequently, homelessness prevention and effectiveness should be carefully accessed.

Three main questions are used in search to develop a frame work for homelessness prevention. First one is to consider that who is at most risk and how to identify it. Second thing to consider that where homelessness come from, did they owned a house before becoming homeless. Thirdly, what events participate in the causes? Do families or individuals become homeless? Further it is proposed that various reasons can be behind homelessness like, structural, institutional and personal or interpersonal. In the methodology materials are collected from Israeli government and local authorities (Szeintuch, 2017). The issue was based on variety of materials, bills laws, letters, and repots summaries, papers stories, videos and audio tapes. Policy of homeless prevention in Israel is based on these findings. Data is given in a descriptive way of the findings. There are particular rules to be followed on street dwellers. While finding if people are eligible for housing there are characteristics to consider on the people who need housing (Szeintuch, 2017). History is given behind the homelessness and three levels of prevention policies are described. The three levels of primary, secondary and tertiary are methods to intervene the homelessness. Examples are given of collected data. These steps are helpful to stop homelessness in any country at initial stage and it reduce the number of new cases. This search is done in an effective way.

In the second article, the author shed light on India’s government policies and number of homelessness. There are various reasons behind homeless people in every country. In India economic growth, exclusion from class, society and family are major factors behind homelessness. Collected data indicate that in India there is not big variance in growth of India than other developed countries but still there are number of people living below the poverty line in India. There are cases to be noticed like, illiteracy, increased number of child abuse and child labor. There are millions of people living on the roads. However, economic growth is increased at a huge level in India but still there is imbalance between the distributions of government policies between the people (D’Souza, 2018). Every year new schemes are introduced in the favor of people but still left millions of Indians unaffected. There are various reasons the biggest thing is corruption in the system all those policies and funds for poor people never reach to them.

Corrupt Politicians in the system misuse their positions. Poor people are at the bottom line of fruits. Random sampling method is used to present study of homelessness. It is also shown that inequality of income distribution is biggest cause. Major cities are mentioned like, Bangalore and Chennai. People live on roads and sleep on roads are described those who do not have good education level. They live at poverty line, do not use their rights and they are not aware of anything going around them. These are basic problems in people. Table chart is given indicating specific numbers and percentage of homeless people, their gender and particular selected years in study (D’Souza, 2018). Domestic violence, low income, rural urban migration, family and lack of social support, mental illness and disability are the major factors behind the causes of homelessness. All the data is given in a particular and effective way. Useful suggestions are proposed to eliminate homeless in India. Inclusive growth should become major policy that every citizen of the country must share the benefit of country’s growth. These suggested policies and frame works can be implemented in all countries to get out of this problem because the era of globalization gear toward development and profit there is need of justice in distribution of rules to save humanity.

Third article is based on United States and improved homelessness in the rural areas. It is revealed that in cities people on the roads are easily highlighted and acknowledged as homeless. They are provided with housings by the associations but in rural areas there are people living in inadequate conditions. They are struggling with their earnings, day to day life, family disputes and individual situations. Those rural areas are lacking in funds and developments. Point-in-time survey is used to perform the study on homelessness. Furthermore a bar graph is used to indicate research based on ten years (as cited in Yousey & Samudra 2018). It shows that homelessness is almost stable at some extent. During ten years period it only decreased from 80,000 to less than 70,000. Which is not a huge change. The data is available to public reported online at state level. A view is given from previous studies. Three different levels are mentioned which distinguish homelessness at different levels. There are limitations highlighted in form of federal policies which hinder the progress of rural areas.

There are different areas divided into group of people who do not like living in other group of people. Different people living in different provinces do not share their funds and growth with other provinces which drag other people down. People living in rural areas are most effected of poverty. Equal distribution of rules and policies by government can help in their growth (as cited in Yousey & Samudra 2018). This study indicate that there is no perfect solutions but still changes can be implemented to help homeless people.

In a nutshell, in all three articles various reasons are mentioned behind homelessness. Studies are shown in a specific way. Various suggestions are made to eradicate homelessness from the countries and world. No one in the world wants to become poor and homeless intentionally. Government body is the first who can come forward and take faster and accurate decisions and actions on this problem. It is hard to imagine life without house. Society and individuals can come forward to help people. Countries can tackle with this problem by helping each other at world level.