Homelessness is the condition in which individuals are without a lasting staying, for example, a house or flat. There are numerous legends and generalizations about "homeless people". Legends and generalizations occur because of misguided judgments conceived of obliviousness, overgeneralizations from one single experience, and poor access to the actual facts. Since homeless people are  frequently called "the invisible population," it is justifiable why these legends and generalizations create and why they continue. Be that as it may, fantasies and generalizations can be tested by realities and separated by those eager to investigate what they thought they knew.

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Myth number One- All homeless people stay homeless for a long time or forever.

   Homelessness is moderately uncommon. From the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD) , around 2 million individuals in the United States were homeless in 2009. But actually 112,000 individuals fit the government meaning of "incessant vagrancy," which applies to the individuals who have been continuously homeless for a year or more, or are experiencing at least their fourth episode of homelessness in three years. “Once a man or woman loses a job or a home, getting those things back can feel nearly impossible. Imagine trying to get a job when you have no address to put on a resume, no phone number, no shower and no clean-pressed clothes”. Homelessness isn't an easy thing to go through if people had no drives then they would stay homeless but the four drives are required for our survival.

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Myth number two- Homeless people prefer living on the streets.

   Lack of housing is the problem, since 2015 different  places have moved more than fourteen thousand homeless residents to supportive units. Shelters fill up overnight and these people are homeless because they can’t access housing not because they love the lifestyle.

“Section 8 vouchers helps homeless families escape homelessness and remain stably housed. In addition, the myth that providing housing assistance to homeless families causes a surge in families seeking shelter has been disproven by academic research studies and years of experience”. Not all homeless want to live on the street it's because they simply can't get into and or find a place to take them in.

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Myth number three- Homeless People Are Taking Advantage Of The System.

   The biggest piece of government help incorporates either inability benefits as Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, or welfare benefits as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF. More than 40 percent of the homeless are qualified for incapacity benefits, just 11 percent really get them. Most homeless families are qualified for welfare benefits yet just 52 percent of them get them. Besides, when people do get benefits, they once in a while get enough to manage the cost of housing. “Today more than 62,000 Americans will rest in homeless shelters, the most since the Great Depression. Approximately 75% of those in shelters are families, including almost 23,000 to be children”. Most homeless people qualify for the system but very little receive them just because there are so many.

 

Myth number four- Homeless people are criminals

   Focusing on this population as a gathering of people to be dreaded has no basis in fact. Homeless people will probably be casualties of violations (hate crime) than to end up lawbreakers. From 1999-2010 there were a sum of 1,074 detailed demonstrations of savagery against the homeless people that brought about 291 deaths to america. The violations that the homeless do perpetrate have a tendency to be identified with peaceful wrongdoings, as indicated by the National Coalition for the Homeless. “Since mid-September, San Diego police have responded to three fatal attacks on homeless victims in as many weeks, a troubling development in a city that witnessed a spate of attacks on homeless men last year, resulting in the arrest of an accused serial killer”. Homeless people are just like me and you, humans tend to do what's right to survive. Homeless people steal to survive but they also get robbed and killed as well.

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