... giving advice, making referrals etc. Over the past decades, the level of homelessness has steadily increased; this may be due to a wide range of factors such as social, economic, lack of affordable housing for the less well off or unemployed, there has even been a drop in the availability of rental accommodation. This lack in housing is partly due to the economic environment but it is also a result of the relatively sudden growth in single person households, as well as single parent households. "A person is homeless if he/she has no accommodation," (housing Act s.58 1995.) This is rather a simplistic definition; it leaves us to define what constitutes reasonable or proper accommodation. Insecure, overcrowded, dangerous, illegal or very temporary accommodation e.g. bed and breakfast hostels, women's refuges, hostels, friends'/relatives' floors, squats and women forced through lack of alternatives to remain in abusive situations, is classed as unsuitable. According to ...

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