Houseless and homeless, are the same thing?

There is a lot of definitions of this two words around the world although many people nowadays confuse this terms. Homelessness means according to (nhchc, 2017): “an individual who lacks housing, including an individual whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary living accommodations, and an individual who is a resident in transitional housing” and houselessness means according to (Oxford dictionary, 2017): “The condition of being houseless or lacking housing”. So the principal difference between this terms are that homeless is about to be alone and belong to nowhere and houseless is about to doesn’t have a house to sleep or also you can have a house but in bad conditions.

Exist many reasons why they became homeless involved interactions between personal disadvantages and weaknesses, negative events and inadequate welfare support services. For some, their behavior rather than external factors triggered homelessness. Other cases involved deficiencies with the administration of services and social security payments, the failure or limitations of agencies to detect and respond effectively to vulnerability, and poor collaboration or information co-ordination among housing providers and welfare agencies.

http://yucommentator.org/2016/11/helping-the-homeless-an-affair-of-city-and-state/

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/homeless-people-are-people-first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvoWBbYxdwc

Reasons for Becoming Homeless

§  Structural Causes: These can include poverty, unemployment, and lack of good quality, affordable housing. More people are now at risk of becoming homeless as a result of the financial crisis which has impacted on the most vulnerable in society and has made more and more people vulnerable.

§  Institutional Causes: People who have lived in foster care and young people leaving care are at high risk of becoming homeless. Also people leaving prison or mental health institutions with nowhere to go to on their release/discharge can end up homeless.

§  Relationship Causes: This can include an abusive relationship or family breakdown. Either way, one or more people may need to leave the home and may have nowhere to go. Death in a family can also be a cause of homelessness as the person may not be able to afford accommodation on one income.

§         Personal Causes: This can include mental illness, learning difficulties, problematic alcohol or/and drug use. If a person has one or more of these problems, they may find it difficult to manage the home they are in or it may lead to other problems such as losing job and inability to pay mortgage/rent or relationship breakdown and have to leave the home. Generally it is a combination of these factors that result in a person becoming homeless.

Domestic Violence Nationally, 50% of homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence.* When a woman is abused, she faces a crisis of safety. If she stays in the home, she’ll be beaten again. If she leaves, she’ll have little means of support. Either choice is a tremendous risk. Choosing homelessness over abuse is both a brave and frightening decision. 

Foreclosure

Even people who have jobs are finding themselves upside down with their mortgages. From 2008 to 2009, foreclosures jumped by 32%. A 2009 survey estimates that as many as 10% of people seeking help from homeless organizations do so due to foreclosure.

Despair

“Once you get down this low, it’s hard to get back up,” we often hear homeless men and women say. The longer they are homeless, the more difficult it becomes to combat the lies they hear in their heads. They believe there’s no way out. They don’t deserve another chance. They’ll never break free from addiction. They’ll always be a failure. More than anything, these men and women need hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2r0HJEPlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBqS31KkhA

During this text, it was mentioned the these terminologies: “homeless and houseless”, that both of them sometimes are confused by the people, so is very important to know the difference by the reason that house and home don’t have the same meaning, because we use “home” if we are talking about having a family or someone who trust; but “house” is used to express the place where we live, so getting back to the words that we were analyzing, homeless and houseless are expressing the lack of people to trust (in the case of homeless) and lack of an acceptable place to live (in the case of houseless). And also it could be related with the last topic that was shown before: runaway and thrownaways, because these two types of people have their reasons to don’t have home or family or place to live, expressing that the homelessness and houselessness could be the result from being a run away and thrownaways.

http://totallyfreeinc.org/services/housing-for-the-homeless/

 Authors: Diana Pacalla, Diana Vargas, Nathalie Ayala and Andrea Amaguaya.

Source:

•  Dubsimon.ie. (2017). Reasons for Becoming Homeless. [online] Available at: http://www.dubsimon.ie/Homelessness/ReasonsforBecomingHomeless.aspx [Accessed 17 May 2017].
•  Homelessnessandhouselessness.blogspot.com. (2017). Homelessness and houselessness. [online] Available at: http://homelessnessandhouselessness.blogspot.com/ [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council. (2017). What is the official definition of homelessness? [online] Available at: https://www.nhchc.org/faq/official-definition-homelessness/ [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• Oxford Dictionaries | English. (2017). houselessness - definition of houselessness in English | Oxford Dictionaries. [online] Available at: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/houselessness [Accessed 17 May 2017]

Sources of pictures:

• Odyssey. (2017). 'Homeless People' Are People First. [online] Available at: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/homeless-people-are-people-first [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• The Commentator. (2017). Helping the Homeless: An Affair of City and State - The Commentator. [online] Available at: http://yucommentator.org/2016/11/helping-the-homeless-an-affair-of-city-and-state/ [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• Totallyfreeinc.org. (2017). Housing for the Homeless – Totally Free Inc. [online] Available at: http://totallyfreeinc.org/services/housing-for-the-homeless/ [Accessed 17 May 2017].

Sources of videos:

• MoeAndEt. (2017). The Homeless Man VS Homeless Child! (Social Experiment). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvoWBbYxdwc [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• YouTube. (2017). Houseless. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2r0HJEPlc [Accessed 17 May 2017].
• Dickinson, D. (2017). My Story and My Van Interior. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBqS31KkhA [Accessed 17 May 2017].