Homelessness
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Homelessness is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and adequate housing. The definition of homelessness differs from country to country, with some countries yet to have any definition in place. Pe
A homeless man in Paris
The Bowery Mission in New York City, c. 1800s
German illustration of a homeless mother and her children in the street, before 1883
A homeless man living in a sewer, Vienna, Austria, c. 1900
Tramp
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A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
Homelessness
…homelessness, lacking any form of shelter. Other words that have been used to indicate homelessness or homeless persons include vagrancy, hobos, and tramps. In 2004, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs defined a homeless household as those households without a shelter that would…
A romanticized tramp depicting Tom Lancaster
"A Tramp's Nest in Ludlow Street", How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890), by Jacob Riis