SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL DISADVANTAGE-HOMELESSNESS1
Introduction
Homelessness is a complicated social issue associated with a range of core economic
as well as social factors. These factors are chiefly related to poverty, shortage of affordable
housing, unreliable physical and mental health services, addictions in addition to community
and family breakdown (Lurie et al., 2015). Moreover, these factors in fluctuating mishmashes
tend to contribute to extent, incidence and types of homelessness. However, complete
homeless means to sustain without shelter. On the other hand, a lot of people experience
partial homelessness which tends to include indefinite, provisional or sub-standard
accommodation (Bullen, 2015). Homelessness is thus, problematic to explain. Hence,
governments struggle with indecision while developing and implementing policies which
they anticipate will efficiently achieve or eradicate this issue. The following paper will
explore homelessness with relevant theory and the social and structural impact on this issue.
It will also analyse historical, political factors along with present or past interventions and the
role of government in eliminating this issue.
Discussion
Social and structural factors of Homelessness
When sociologists mention structural factors they chiefly shed light on the organised
patterns of social relations and social organizations. These social associations and social
institutions tend to be prevalent and enduring (Timmer et al., 2019). The two most commonly
mentioned social structures in the perspective of homelessness are housing and labour
markets. According to Giannini (2017), while considering individuals as price-takers they can
principally make exchange of consumption of single good for another with an intention of
attaining different reasonable services of housing in addition to additional consumption.
Nonetheless, when earnings is very little, the rate of affordability tends to shrink, thus
permitting consumption of sub-standard quality housing which tend to absorb substantial

Social And Structural Disadvantage of Homelessness

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