Population
There are many different definitions of homeless being used. A person who does not have a stable, secure, night-time housing can be considered homeless. The phrase “hidden homeless” includes those that are staying with relatives, individuals …show more content…
Members of this group include those older adults who are unemployed or earn such a low wage that housing is unaffordable for them. Some include migrant workers with no special skill to be employable. They must move wherever the work is, yet cannot afford even temporary shelter. Stay-at-home wives depend upon their husbands to provide for them. If that same husband dies or divorces, these women are without marketable job skills. Substance abusers and drug addicts also have members in the older generation that are homeless because of their