Struggles Of 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.

Due to the hardships of the economy and lack of capital to keep up with it, most people fall into poverty, and this leads to homelessness making poverty the number one cause of vagrancy. There are also other reasons that may lead to someone finding themselves in this state, such as being born into a homeless family.

There are numerous impacts of vagrancy on an individual, a family and even the society in which they live in. Health problems, incapacity to maintain employment, separation in families and other reasons are the main course that leads to many being homeless. Not only does vagrancy affect those living in it but it also affects those around them 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.

However, there are those in the community who refuse to give up on the less fortunate and the homeless in the society. They have taken it upon themselves to see that they can help out in any way possible and bring these people back to their feet so that they can be self-dependent once again.




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