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A '''homeless''' person is someone without the income to pay for shelter, living catch-as-catch can, sometimes outside. The causes are many: incompetence, alcoholism, poor mental health, or economic recession. After 1960 many poor farms and mental hospitals that once housed the homeless have been shut down, and the weakness of family ties means their relatives are alienated and do not help. They get income by begging, stealing, and working at casual labor jobs for a day or two. Money is not safe for they suffer heavily from robbery. [[File:Homeless.jpg|thumb|250px]]
A '''homeless''' person is someone without the income to pay for shelter, living catch-as-catch can, sometimes outside. The causes are many: incompetence, alcoholism, poor mental health, or economic recession. After 1960 many poor farms and mental hospitals that once housed the homeless have been shut down, and the weakness of family ties means their relatives are alienated and do not help. They get income by begging, stealing, and working at casual labor jobs for a day or two. Some also work consistent jobs in retail or food service. Money is not safe for they suffer heavily from robbery. Due to past financial mistakes, many homeles do not have access to regular bank services and rely on predatory cash checking and prepaid debit cards. [[File:Homeless.jpg|thumb|250px]]
==Numbers and definitions==
==Numbers and definitions==
Urban renewal created much of the problem. In San Diego, California, the Centre City Development Corporation's urban renewal project in the Gaslamp Quarter began in 1968. Aimed at making the area a national historic district and bringing upper- and middle-class tourists and suburban residents to downtown San Diego, the project effectively displaced and disrupted thousands of elderly people, working-class poor, homeless, and others from this area of the city.<ref>Jordan Ervin, "Reinventing Downtown San Diego: a Spatial and Cultural Analysis of the Gaslamp Quarter," ''Journal of San Diego History'' 2007 53(4): 188-217,</ref>
Urban renewal created much of the problem. In San Diego, California, the Centre City Development Corporation's urban renewal project in the Gaslamp Quarter began in 1968. Aimed at making the area a national historic district and bringing upper- and middle-class tourists and suburban residents to downtown San Diego, the project effectively displaced and disrupted thousands of elderly people, working-class poor, homeless, and others from this area of the city.<ref>Jordan Ervin, "Reinventing Downtown San Diego: a Spatial and Cultural Analysis of the Gaslamp Quarter," ''Journal of San Diego History'' 2007 53(4): 188-217,</ref>
==Liberal Hypocrisy==
Despite claiming to be champions for the poor, [[liberal]] [[Democrat]] run cities such as [[San Francisco]] are criminalizing homelessness due to concern over property values and concerns over the city's reputation. They do this in addition to supporting anti-business policies that make it more difficult for the homeless people who want to get out of poverty. Policies such as the [[Obamacare]] employer mandate have made it cost prohibitive to hire unskilled workers.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Beier, A. L., and Paul Ocobock, eds. ''Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective'' (2009), international perspective [http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Out-Homelessness-Historical-Perspective/dp/0896802620/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258526111&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]
* Beier, A. L., and Paul Ocobock, eds. ''Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective'' (2009), international perspective [http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Out-Homelessness-Historical-Perspective/dp/0896802620/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258526111&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search]