SOCIOL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeless Shelter, The Other America, Affordable Housing
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A personal trouble and a public issue. Income inequality and homelessness have periods of when they collectively care about it and when it just goes back. But poverty has an enduring place in society. The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. Experiencing want, not having one"s basic needs met. Also experiencing deprivation -- material or shelter, phone, car, clothing. Also psychological poverty, emotional poverty, moral poverty. "those whose basic needs exceed their means to satisfy them" What kind of resources should be counted. Defining and measuring poverty is not straightforward. No universally held standards on what minimum needs are. Our basic items have debate on if these things are essential and fundamental. 1963 -- many middle income households that could not regulate water temperature of their faucets.
