“Home” has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much yearn for…How hard can we expect even a pair of magic shoes to work? They promise to take us home, but… will they permit us to redefine the blessed word? -Salman Rushdie (Hopper&Baumohl p.3). Homeless people all around the world, stopped believing in ruby slippers a long time ago, because they know that fairy tales will not get them out of their predicament. They must struggle on their own, with the puny help of the government and the efforts of good-hearted people.Homelessness, a devastating experience for people, disrupts virtually every aspect of family life, damaging the physical and emotional health of family members, interfering with the children’s education and development and most frequently resulting in the separation of the family.To find a solution to a problem we must first know some things about it. Homelessness is not a recent issue. It dates back to the eighteenth century and is tied to changes in economic conditions, increasing with the economic downturns and declining with the returning of prosperity or the outbreak of war. For fear of social disorder the homeless were classified as a social problem which was left to the middle-class to care of (Richard D. Bingham et al. 17). And after all this time we still look upon these people as a problem, an inconvenience. Because nobody has taken the time to look past the stereotypes that concern these people.The majority of the population believes that they’re to blame for being homeless but the truth is that most of them are victims. Some suffer from childhood abuse or violence. Nearly one quarter are children. Many have lost their jobs and all of them have lost their homes. They also believe that the homeless are either mentally ill or heavy drug users, which is partly true. About 25% are estimated to be emotionally disturbed, 1%may need ...
