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Many  reasons, from the economy to mental health issues. The governments failure to pressure the banks to negotiate foreclosure issues and bankruptcies. Empty houses going to hell with mold, animal infestation, vandalism, etc; Churches can only do so much, they also have noticed a dramatic decrease in donations. If this continues there will be a revolution by what once was the working class. The parasites on welfare  still get their free handout's, they don't care. This waste of skin we now have for a President will be reelected. He is catering to a specific group and they are on top of the s**t list.

I do not live in the USA and have not visited for many years, but I hear of many foreclosed homes some of which can't be given away. So how is it that there are so many unoccupied houses and so many homeless people?

1.Homeless no hope 2. economy 3.general Population doesn't care 4. government Doesn't Care

The current homelessness started with economic problems and lack of affordable housing The closing of psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s was als a  factor, where there was no place to go but live on the streets.. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 was setting the stage for homelessness in the US. and the people with psychiatic problems were living on the streets with no support system. People  losing theire homes for economic reasons and people with addictions increased the homeless population Though there are homeless shelters, they can only stay there for the night and have to leave in the morning. There are not enough homeless shelters for all the homeless people and the will sleep in subway stations, under bridges and in tunnels. St. Francis home in Boston, MA. is open during the day for homeless people. Many homeless people have no acess to bathing, toilets and laundry facilities and therefore there is a great increase in TB and other diseases.

In 1974 , Kyle Tieman founded "Rosies Place" in Boston, MA., the first emergency and drop-in-shelter for women. In 1979, a New York lawyer, Robert Hayes brought a class action suit against the city for a persons constitutional "RIGHT TO SHELTER." and was extented to homeless women. In 2009, Pres. Obama signed " Homeless Emergency Assistance  and Rapid Trancition To Housing" into law. But by late 2009,  there were problems with that law with regards to definitional ineligebility and restrictions.

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The economy.

There are many unoccupied properties here in London - I have seen 3 bedroom flats with only one person residing and when they have died the flat and others are just left unoccupied for  want of a lick of paint. Totally appalling management!!! In the States as well - I can see.

drugs, alchohol, mental illness. But, the question is.......how did all these problems come about. Well, one reason is that Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA agreement; so thousands of jobs were sent overseas and to Mexico, Guatamala, and El Salvador.  And many jobs were automated.  For the lack of employment here, in Michigan is due to the auto industry falling apart. For 10 or 15 years, they kept letting go thousands of employees. The auto industry used to enable people who didn't have much education to get a good paying job. All they had to do was be breathing to be hired.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's terrible. I'll just guess here. 

I really think people are happy when they are employed in work and making paychecks. If this doesn't happen they have mental health problems, alcoholism or other drug problems, physical problems.

We lived by a mental health hospital when Regan closed them down. Oh, the things we saw. People wandering wild. People scared. People so damn sick. We moved  from our house from sheer terror of one of the paranoid people getting in. 

There needs to be a revolution in understanding. I think it's a long, long way down the road. So Sad.  Until that time, the rest of us who are able to follow the rules  probably need to get a gun. 

Immigration being out of control . No jobs

The ROOT cause is  POOR CHOICES.   Most everything else is secondary.

If people would look before they leap we could deal with the people who have mental issues. 

Too much coroporateness., what a surprise!

1.mental illness 2. drug addiction  3. ronald regan- in california- when he was governor, he closed most of the mental institutions and after this the rate of homelessness increased greatly.