Homelessness

Lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence and ... has a primary night time residency that is: (A) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations ... (B) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or (C) a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.

The homeless issue impacts children, teens, families, the mentally ill, the illiterate and others who makeup this segment of the U.S. population. Despite great controversy over how best to enact policy that effectively deals with the issue, only one major piece of federal legislation directly addresses the homeless population. This analysis will explore the extent of the homeless issue in U.S. society, the reasons why people are homeless, who is homeless and other demographic variables. Also included in the discussion will be a review of hom

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provisions like shelter, food, health care and other necessities to the homeless. With massive support from the public, the legislation originally known as the Urgent Relief for Homeless Act readily passed both houses of Congress. The chief Republican sponsor of the legislation was Stewart B. McKinney who died just before the Act was signed into law. As the National Coalition for the Homeless explains, “The act was renamed the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and was signed into law by a reluctant President Ronald Reagan on July 22, 1987” (NCH #18 1999, 1). The McKinney Act contains nine titles that offer a variety of services to homeless people, such as shelter, education, and job training. For example, Title VIII amended the food stamp program to encourage participation in it by the homeless. Since the passage of the legislation, the McKinney Act has been amended four times, in 1988, 1990, 1992 and 1994 (NCH #18 1999, 3). Most of these amendments expanded and added strength to the original Act. Funding for the McKinney Act was originally approved by Congress at $1 billion for 1987 and 1988, funding that reached a peak high of $1.49 billion in 1995 (NCH # 18 1999, 4). However, in 1996, McKinney Act expenditure
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