"As another record for the number of homeless people in our country is broken, there are grounds for fearing we may be coming dangerously close to accepting the situation as a problem we cannot solve."
"It's true we can't always stop the wars, or the violent storms, earthquakes, floods and droughts caused by extremes in nature across the globe that have left millions without somewhere to call their own."
Record numbers of homeless people are being registered, creating concern that society may begin to accept homelessness as an insoluble problem. The surge in homelessness is linked in part to factors beyond immediate control, including armed conflict and extreme natural disasters such as violent storms, earthquakes, floods and droughts. These events have displaced millions worldwide, leaving many without stable shelter. The combination of growing numbers and catastrophic causes raises the risk of normalizing homelessness and diminishing collective urgency to find and implement effective housing and humanitarian responses.
Read at Irish Independent
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]