Challenges of Poverty and Homelessness: A Sociological Perspective

This essay explores the multifaceted challenges associated with poverty and homelessness. It begins by defining poverty as the lack of access to basic needs and homelessness as the absence of a permanent dwelling. The essay then delves into the specific challenges faced by homeless individuals, including threats to personal security and privacy, reduced access to healthcare and education, and social isolation. Furthermore, it examines the challenges of poverty, such as limited access to quality education and healthcare, and the struggle for basic sustenance. The essay highlights the impact of these challenges on individuals, emphasizing the cyclical nature of poverty and homelessness and the need for comprehensive solutions. The essay references several scholarly articles to support its claims. The conclusion reiterates the severity of these issues, highlighting the importance of addressing both poverty and homelessness to improve the lives of vulnerable populations.

CHALLENGES OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS
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Introduction
Poverty is a universal situation where human being lack or not able to access basic needs.
Homelessness is an overall condition where a person lacks a permanent place for living or
dwelling. Today ,many people around the world has lives a poor life not because they lack the
sources but others are in work but they cannot meet their needs since the income is too low.
Some lacks dwelling place due to many different factors some are natural calamities like floods
and every poverty itself.
Challenges of homelessness
Homeless according to Buckner (2008). people are exposed to so many challenges than any
other person around the globe. Though the challenges are countless, the major and crucial one
are stated below.
Personal security and privacy.
Homeless people have got a lot of problems when it comes to security. They are never
safe since they don’t own a place where they can privately execute their daily jobs. Especially
during night, they are never safe since they don’t posses a private place to sleep. This posses
them to a lot of risks of being attacked by other people and also wild animals.
Reduced access to health care.
This is confusing so much since homeless people cannot access health care freely like
other people. This is because they cannot have a place to keep their belongings in order to attend
the services in case of emergency.
Limited access to education.
Education is the key to good life. This needs motivation in order to freely and
conveniently pursue education. When a person is homeless, this right to education changes, this
is because it becomes difficult to do personal study, no origin so no place to prepare from so that
to attend school, and also no motivation that can make the person attend to school.

Loss of relationship with the mainstream.
Homeless people are not trusted They are taken as thieves. They are discriminated by
other people since they have no specific dwelling place. In fact, such people cannot be employed
anywhere when it is discovered so regardless of the cause of the situation since they are taken as
a burden and therefore not suitable for any vacancy. With this situation , they are also disturbed
mentally and also make then separate themselves from the haves since they feel like they are
lesser human beings.
Challenges of poverty
Poverty has become the driving force of all evil doings in the world as. Many people
around the world are poor and therefore poverty has affected more than 73% of the people in the
globe. Though poverty has levels from the haves, moderate and the have nots. The below are the
challenges that poverty encapsulated people face in their daily executions, Anger (2010)..
Lack of quality education
According to Espinosa (2014). Poverty entrenched people might not get quality education
same to those who have money since education is attached to money In most of the countries in
the world. This is very much critical since most of the families which are eaten deep with
poverty they always struggle to meet their most basic needs of life which is food, shelter and
clothing. But since they cannot meet the basics, education to them is taken as secondary hence
they cannot accomplish this secondary need while primary need has not been done away with.
Lack of quality health care
Health services in most of the countries is subject to payment. Most of the health
facilities which provide quality services are very much expensive to ow class dwellers. A person
therefore suffers a lot in case is ill and the medication which is needs must be provided from the
health services which most modern and current facilities. This kind of discrimination makes poor
people die where as they could have been saved for the same, Thornton & Herrero (2008)..

Struggle for upkeep
It is a real toil for a poor family to have a full day upkeep in terms of food and clothing.
They really toil in order to make ends meet. The improvement in their living standards is
painfully slow and is also tedious to achieve the normal meals daily.
Conclusion
Poverty and homelessness is the worst situation of life that a human being can live in.
The people who come across this kind of life faces a lot of challenges that could even lead to
death, Springer (2013).. A worst being homeless person since being homeless, you become poor by
default since you miss one of the most basic need for a human being which is shelter and food
too.

References
Thornton, P., & Herrero, M. (2008). Climate change, vulnerability and livestock keepers:
challenges for poverty alleviation. Livestock and Global Climate Change, 21.
Espinosa, L. M. (2014). Getting it right for young children from diverse backgrounds: Applying
research to improve practice with a focus on dual language learners. Pearson Higher Ed.
Anger, B. (2010). Poverty eradication, millennium development goals and sustainable
development in Nigeria. Journal of sustainable development, 3(4), 138.
Springer, J. (2013). Policy challenges to homelessness among Caribbean youth in
Toronto. Youth homelessness in Canada: Implications for policy and practice, 445-468.
Buckner, J. C. (2008). Understanding the impact of homelessness on children: Challenges and
future research directions. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(6), 721-736.