The label given to homes that are not up to code, due to not meeting electricity and plumbing requirements?
What is substandard housing?
100
This single cause plays a role in 68% of all homelessness cases. Without proper treatment, a formerly homeless person who suffers from this is very likely to return to being homeless.
What is addiction?
100
True or false: Atlanta is the poorest city in the US for children?
What is True?
100
This is of the most common causes for homelessness in Atlanta.
What is: loss of work, drug use, alcohol abuse.
100
Give a $50 range in which the current welfare benefits lie for a single woman with two children?
What is anything that includes $282
200
This author wrote "People of the Abyss" in 1903, which was inspired by "How the Other Half Lives." It raised social awareness, promoted building code changes, and introduced dormitory style "spikes" as a housing option.
Who is Jack London?
200
This cause plays a role in 50% of all homeless women and children.
What is domestic abuse?
200
This many teens (in thousands) die each year due to assault, illness, or suicide while living on the streets.
What is 5000?
200
This is the average number of years that someone in Atlanta has been homeless.
What is less than a year
200
This is the percentage of homeless men that are veterans. (Divisible by 10)
What is 40%?
300
This president signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which lowered the standards for involuntary commitment to mental health institutions. As a result, 1700 mental health hospitals lost significant funding.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
6% of the American population suffers from this cause. Yet among the homeless population, this number jumps to 25%.
What is mental illness.
300
This percent of homeless teens identify as LGBT. Roughly 4 times as prevalent as the housed population.
What is 40%
300
This is the homeless population in Atlanta (in thousands).
What is 7000?
400
During the civil war, this drug was introduced that led to the first cases of opiate addiction among veterans.
What is morphine?
400
This cause reached a peak in 2009 when it took a jump of 39%. It effects roughly 10% of the homeless population.
What is foreclosure?
400
Under this age is the fastest growing homeless population in the US.
What is 9
400
The number of beds available for the homeless population are in this range of thousands.
What is 2000-3000. (2600)
500
In 1965 Lyndon B Johnson created this Cabinet department as part of the "Great Society" program to develop and execute policies on housing and metropolises.
What is the US Department of Housing and Development (HUD)?
500
This cause is most prevalent among the 200,000 homeless veterans in the states.
What is PTSD?
500
Homeless children are this many times more likely to be sick than other children.
What is 4 times as likely?
500
This is the number of hours each week that would need to be worked at minimum wage to afford a 2 bedroom apartment at Fair Market rent in Atlanta.