Email from Sandy Re: Causes of Homelessness. Thanks Sandy!

Please add these reasons to your list of causes for homelessness:

No means of transportation
Over-qualified for available jobs

Severe housing shortage crisis (in US about 50M or more people immigrated here over the past 150 years, & there never were enough housing units because US was virgin land without housing)

Chronic poor health

Old age

Disabilities of all sorts (not just mental illness -- blind, crippled, & many more)

Low wages being offered (many homeless people work but can't afford housing of any kind -- McDonalds etc pay too little)

Orphans (both child & adults who have no financially well-off relatives or friends who can help them)

Language barriers

Lack of education thru no fault of their own (immigrants but also many Americans either lived where it wasn't available --think back to 1865 in the south -- or the prejudices & laws were meant to keep them from getting education; poverty also kept most people from getting an education)

Education itself causes poverty (they can't afford transportation or materials, no matter how small, to get an education)

Trying to be an "Entrepreneur" (most fail thru no fault of their own -- they fail only because the System is set up to cause failure (Capitalism; the wage > Ref: The Rich & Super-Rich, by Ferdinand Lundberg)

loans (which shouldn't exist because they're slavery)

Stolen identity

poor Resume (employers stick them on the bottom or just burn them without looking because of the way it looks)

Unnatural disasters (fires of entire apartment complexes (example)

Housing bubble burst (not their fault)

the present economic woes caused by things out of a person's control (all people & nations are connected financially, so it's the domino effect - caused by capitalism, the wage which is slavery)

Inability to know how to spend money "wisely" (most people, if any even the rich) don't know how to handle money)

Automobiles (inability to afford repairs & maintenance thru no fault of their own, caused by low wage offered)

expensive child care vs. low wages

Unable to marry (it's hard to find some one, period, & add to that find someone who both work & earn enough to survive)

Inability to find a roommate

Bad luck (either one time or many times in a row)

Trauma (death of child or spouse or parent; car crash, etc)

Advertisements (brainwash them to spend too much; plus people shop & spend because there's nothing else to do)

Too many loopholes to fall thru (before many social services existed, & even after they existed there's no way for most people to know about the aid from social services available, esp. if there's a language barrier)

Job discrimination

Getting fired (causes trauma) thru no fault of their own most of the time

Having the wrong friends

Getting pregnant (both in & out of wedlock -- the poor can't take it to court since they're homeless)

Going thru Foster care (at age 18 the "help" forces those children out of foster care without a penny)

Adoption (money, or lack, always causes family problems but especially between adoptive child & parents)

Crimes against a person that contributed to their becoming homeless

Getting fired by a company just before "retirement" because the company doesn't want to pay it)

ALL of these causes are from one source: THE WAGE SYSTEM which is SLAVERY. Those reasons need to be added to your list of CAUSES of homelessness. Thank you.

Sandy