This seven-page undergraduate paper is about homelessness and its causes. It is anthropological in nature. The paper focuses on whether it is the urban environment that produces the alienation and poverty that leads to homelessness? Or are there other more complex chains of causality? Due to many complex factors, homelessness is rampant in the world. Poverty is its root cause. There just is not enough money to take care of all people. Emile Durkheim's work provides a solid background through which society may find its way to help the homeless. The governments also need to put more resources and their minds into the help of the poor. 7 pgs. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
