Homelessness, Poverty and Mental

Health
Wright 1989
 Lacks access to regular and customary access
to a conventional dwelling unit, yet there
remain considerable ambiguities in trying to
define “regular and customary access” and a
conventional dwelling unit.
 Literal Homeless – No rented rooms, no
hostels, no friends to live with, and they
either live on the streets or avail themselves
of space like shelters
 Making a Difference – Caring for Homeless
Mentally Ill Women – The Banyan Experience,
An Evaluation Report prepared by NIMHANS
(2003)
 Key Concepts in Mental Health, David
Pilgrim, SAGE Publ. (2014)
 Poverty and Famines, Amartya Sen & Jean
Dreze Omnibus (1995)
 Health, Poverty and Development in India,
Ed. Monica Das Gupta (1996), Oxford
Leach (1979)
 Intrinsic Homeless
 Mental and physical disability
 Extrinsic Homeless
 External Factors
 Single Vs. Family
 Children Vs. Young Vs. Elderly
 Transgender Vs. Female Vs. Male
 Excluded from Statistics
 Primary homelessness (or roofless-ness) -
persons living in streets or without a shelter
or living quarters
 Persons with no place of usual residence who
move frequently between various types of
accommodation (including dwellings, shelters
or other living quarters)
 Usually resident in long-term ‘transitional’
shelters or similar arrangements for the
homeless. This category also includes persons
living in private dwellings but reporting ‘no
usual address’ on their census form.
 Income poverty
 Extreme poverty
 Absolute poverty
 Relative poverty
Command
over
Resources
 Income
 Basic Needs
 Capability or Empowerment
State of well-being in which every individual
 Realizes his or her own potential,
 Can cope with the normal stresses of life,
 Can work productively and fruitfully, and is
 Able to make a contribution to her or his
community