People have not always had to suffer with homelessness. Too bad the problem has almost always existed, it had not reached a severe level until recently. With every war there has been a small trickle of homeless veterans to follow, but the Vietnam War and Korean War left a wave of many people without anywhere to go. This was just the start of the problem. Then the government decided to decriminalize drunkenness, loitering, and roaming on the streets. That means there were many homeless people that would normall

Homeless people can be categorized into four basic categories, families, lone, transient, or bums. A person in a family is usually a man and wife with one to many children living on the streets. A lone person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. Transients is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities by means of walking and hitch hiking.

Drugs are everywhere on the streets. It is estimated that 20% of all people living on the streets use hard drugs daily. Such drugs as cocaine, heroine, and morphine plague certain areas. AIDS often spreads like wildfire among people who share unsterilized needles, and once a person contracts the HIV virus, they become a statistic in the disabled category. I have found that there seem to be two main elements in saving a homeless person. The government needs to help homeless people get back on

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