Homelessness and Smoking. The tobacco-homelessness link has long been known.
It was reported by, for example, In 1916, B. Frank Scholl, Ph.G., M.D., ed., Library of Health: Complete Guide to Prevention and Cure of Disease (Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Co, 1916), p 1486, identified cigarette smoking as "an expensive habit, often entailing poverty, and always diminishing the recompense of labor. In the families of those who earn meagre support its expensiveness is almost the equivalent of robbery of wife and children. Destitution lies in the wake of tobacco . . . . " Here is a modern example of data on the subject. This hospital is specially devoted to Paris homeless. As a result of their low income, they use tobacco in a very hazardous way: hand-rolled cigarettes, without filter, recycled tobacco from butts, group smoking, a cigarette passing from mouth to mouth together with Koch's bacillus etc.
The health result of these habits is appalling, with a dramatic increase of throat and mouth cancer. Prof. Prof. 240 Project - a community and activity centre in West London - Home. Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions. Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions Article by Steph, filed under Cities & Urbanism in the Architecture category.
City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage the issue of homelessness in general. One area of focus is homeless housing, whether simply meeting the immediate needs of people who live on the streets or providing a more long-term, forward-thinking transitional living spaces. These 14 designs for homeless housing provoke thought as to how we can meet the needs of disadvantaged people living in our own communities, and ensure that the situation is only temporary. Hopetel: Transitional High-Rise Housing (images via: evolo.us) Mobile Homeless Shelter by Paul Elkin (images via: paul elkin) WheelLY Recycled Homeless Shelter by Zo-Loft Architecture & Design (images via: zo-loft) Back on Track by Sarah Crowley Pump and Jump.
Work among the homeless - Faithworks Wessex. FREE Homelessness Volunteer Training Monday 28 April &30 June 2014Are you currently working as a food outreach volunteer with folk experiencing homelessness?
Or would you like to serve in this area? Would you like to know more about local connection, the council's pathway plan, the Bournemouth and Poole Rough Sleepers Team, Safeguarding and boundaries? Do you have any other questions?... Faithworks Wessex are hosting training aimed at answering any questions you may have (questions must be submitted by the Monday prior to training). Places are going fast! Meet Tony Reynolds - our Homelessness Project Coordinator. Tony will also be coordinating the upcoming Homelessness Volunteer Training in April and June. Bringing Hope into physical poverty… Faithworks Wessex supports a network of churches that are providing food and clothing support to help those who are rough sleeping and vulnerably housed get off the streets of Bournemouth. Homeless Youth Project/Jimmy. Giving the homeless a place to live costs less than providing shelters and emergency services. Last month, the Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) released a compilation report on the costs of caring for Canadians on the street.
While homeless advocates usually make appeals to compassion and morality when championing policy reforms to help the most impoverished of this country’s citizens, the report attempts to illustrate empirically the financial impact of homelessness. What author Stephen Gaetz makes clear is that calculating the cost of homelessness must not only account for shelters or soup kitchens, but also peripheral services, such as health care and the justice system, that homeless people come into contact with more frequently than society at large. As they are often poorly nourished, unable to engage in adequate sanitation practices, and live in settings where exposure to communicable disease is high, for instance, homeless Canadians experience a serious deterioration of their physical health.