Buy food or pay bills; that’s a question that many families in America grapple with regularly. When you hear the word food insecurity who immediately comes to your mind?
For a long time, hunger has been associated with extreme poverty and the homeless. However, a growing lack of consistent access to nutritious meals has everyone talking because it affects more than people experiencing homelessness.
Poverty and malnutrition form a vicious cycle. One that becomes intergenerational and directly affects a person’s ability to succeed in school and find employment. All of which increases the likelihood that an individual will experience homelessness.
When you add in the ever-increasing cost of living and lack of affordable housing, a growing concern in many moderate to low-income households. Economic hardship will cause a number of families to accept substandard living arrangements, even homelessness. Individuals will accept underemployment, turn to crime to survive, or sacrifice assets to cover immediate needs.
As food insecurity rates rise, so will the homeless population. Food insecurity may not be the cause of homelessness, but those who experience it on a regular basis are at a much greater risk of becoming homeless.
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