Martha Burt identifies 3 factors that create conditions like extreme poverty that increase the risk of homelessness
- Structural factors: changes in the housing market, employment opportunities, criminal justice policies and institutional support for poor people and people with disabilities 
-Individual characteristics: disabilities, mental illness, addiction and a felony record
- Public Poverty: effective policies can prevent homelessness and reduce impact of structural and personal factors that place people at risk of homelessness

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Someone is homeless if they lack a regular, fixed and adequate nighttime residence
- Shelter problems
- Count in 2019
- 3 factors that increase risk of homelessness

Homelessness

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A Sociology Experiment

- spoiled food
- mold
- lead paint
- bedbugs
- roaches
- discarded crack pipes
- sexual misconduct by employees

Shelter Problems

Counted the number of homeless people across the country in emergency shelters, transitional housing or on the street
- 567,715 people experienced homelessness in 2019 in the United States
-1/3 of them were children
- 63% were sheltered homeless (in emergency shelters, transitional housing or safe havens)
- 37% unsheltered homeless (in public or private places not designed for sleeping)
- 8% of homeless are military veterans
- ~25% of homeless people experience chronic homelessness (a person with disability who has been homeless for a year or more OR has experienced at least 4 episodes of homelessness in the past 3 years with a combined length of at least 12 months) 
- Disabilities include substance use, serious mental illness, developmental disabilities, PTSD, cognitive impairments from a brain injury or chronic physical illness or disability
The number of homeless people has decreased since 2007

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