'Shocking' rise in homelessness among women

Now that there are all these homeless women AND men the next step should be to create a dating website for them. They could access it at public libraries. Homeless hook-up? Anyone?

sad, really.

One Christmas I volunteered in a local soup kitchen. The church invited 25 families for a turkey dinner, and I expected them to be your stereotypical homeless. Instead they were people I recognized from around town. Mothers with kids and some single men who l would never have thought were living in complete poverty. I mean, this is a pretty decent suburb, so the concept of poverty/homelessness here was alien to me. It really was an eye opener.

Are we becoming a new society? Why is this being allowed. How many homeless would the price of one missile and one jet feed and house for how many years??

This article fails to point out that many womwn only shelters dont allow boys over the age of 12 to reside in their facilities. This can cause some mothers to be refused shelter based on a gender biased principle. Also this can expose the corruption within our infrastructure caused by SS Title IV-D. A federal incentive program that makes Family court employees and CPS caseworkers put children and families in states of poverty in an effort to fatten their own wallets. All too often children are put in an impoverished home so the government can collect on the funds given to them by SS Title IV-D for having an overactive system.

Why should this Country have any homeless people? Our house, is a very, very, fine house. With two cats in the yard. Life used too be so hard.

Homelessness is bad regardless of Gender.

The poorest and most vulnerable always pay the highest price.

I see this as a byproduct of two problems. One being the mortgage crisis and the other is the high divorce rate. If you split families apart in the middle of an economic crisis, these are the kind of issues that arise.

The idea of having to go from shelter to shelter and eventually the streets is a foreign concept for me. I think there is no better safety net than family. If ever I were to fall on hard times, I know I have an aunt, an uncle, or a cousin I crash at until I get on my feet. I think we'll find a strong correlation between the two findings.

Heartbreaking.

I wonder why the research focused on women? Why not both? What there should be is a solution. But, that would be quite hard due to our failing economy.

Homelessness diminishes us all whether female or male. It is a national shame when children are homeless and never know the security of home whether it is one room or several. When children do not know the safety of friends and neighbors and have green areas to play we end up with rage, apathy, addiction, terrorism, and a society that has lost its way.

Homeless women, especially mothers, are much more vulnerable to violence and manipulation on the street. Homeless men can take care of themselves differently than women. I think the increase of homeless women is indicative of how rising costs of living and no increase in wages is really pushing people down.

There are homeless men, also and why is it so shocking that women are homeless.

the sad truth of this is these are not just the "homeless" we have come to accept, i.e. drug users, mentally ill, very low income. I have read of women in Santa Barbara, CA that have jobs and education that cannot afford the rents in their area and a shelter has opened a parking lot with guards for women to sleep in their cars with their pets.

This is a National Outrage and Shame whatever the country.

So much greed, so much suffering, the economic structure in this country has change as well as our priorities.