Coping With Being Homelessness In Georgia

By Ann Sullivan


Each person has his or her definition of homelessness. To some, it means lack of a roof for yourself or your family. To some, it is not having the basic human commodities necessary for human survival. But even with all those definitions, nobody would wish to be Homelessness in Georgia.

The biggest contributor to vagrancy is poverty. The high standards of living and the ever-fluctuating economy drive many people to lose their homes due to mortgages or being unable to sustain themselves and their families. For others, they are born into homelessness, and to them, that is the life they live to know.

Vagrancy has a profound impact on the individuals and families it affects including increased health problems, increased mental health problems, difficulty with maintaining employment, separation of families, lack of education and many more. These problems affect not only them but also their children and generations after them.

In their attempts to handle and cope with the difficulties of life, most of these people turn into a life of drugs, crime, prostitution, and other vices. This is because they once had dreams to work and be self-reliant, but they lost hope along the way. This is brought about by lack of proper education or the ability to maintain a job and thus reach their goals.

Although they do offer shelter for the night, homeless shelters are not able to solve the problems that cause the state of vagrancy. They are pretty much. The last resort available to people who no longer have a roof. If homeless people had support from their community and enough resources for medical care, mental health care, recovery from substance abuse, and criminal rehabilitation, Georgia would probably see a dramatic drop in the number of homeless people.

But these accommodations do come with their cons, which at the same time comes with it issues. Most of them are overcrowded. The reason being the shelters try to take in as many people as they can but end up being overburdened. You, therefore, have too many people living in them at a given time than the required capacity. This leads to a shortage of commodities like water, food, medicine and even clothing.

As one can expect, many people living in one shelter at a given time leads to insecurity and other safety issues. Health issues also start emerging, and diseases become part of their lives. Most of the time fights will erupt when the rations are in shortage. Due to low levels of cleanliness, lice become rampant. This risks the well being of those living in these shelters.

At the heart of solving the vagrancy, the challenge is the society taking responsibility for the well-being and livelihood of its less fortunate members. Considering that a homeless shelter is a good enough solution to the problem is not enough to help to get people back on their feet and have a roof over their heads.




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