User:Revanda Faraj/Housing

In addition to the negative effects that affordable housing has on health, there are many other negative effects that come with it. For example, the lack of affordable housing can lead many people to not be able to find housing which causes them to become homeless. Within the issue of people not being able to find affordable housing, there are two groups of individuals in the community;  those who are able to afford it and have the choice to do so and those who are not able to afford it. Those who are unable to afford it are more likely to become homeless but a huge amount of people will be out of this issue of homelessness if there was more affordable housing available. In California, in the HUD’s report, it has proven that “California had about 134,000 homeless individuals, which represented about 24 percent of the total homeless population in the nation”. This is such a high amount of people who are homeless without housing. It’s a terrible thing for people to go through the process of being homeless, it has some serious mental illnesses. Many homeless people tend to get addicted to drugs, many become alcoholics, and many go through trauma and have mental illnesses. Homelessness is proven to increase because of the issue of affordable housing.