How do we really know what people are homeless? What categorizes people as being homeless? How does our society and community around us look at homeless people?

Our image of the homeless population is seeing people with raggedy clothes and dirty and pushing around a shopping cart on the side of the street, Or the people that are sleeping on park benches and under freeways. We never think that a lot of people that don’t look like that image are homeless. Being homeless has a broad definition it can be people that are sleeping on a couch at a friends or relatives house or it can be a person that is living in a motel, or can even be people that are living in a shelter for the night. Being homeless is seen different in many people’s eyes and is mostly seen as the people on the side of the road. Our community and society I feel has put a bad name on homeless people and has not really looked at them as people but more as an outcast and as they are worthless. The homeless population should be treated and looked at as equal because everyone has gone through tough times and some have it worse than others, our society has a way of out casting people who don’t fit the norm and puts a bad name and tag on them which makes them looked down upon.