Penang Homeless People
Poor people are defined as the people who are having poverty, without having the ability to meet their basic human needs of clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter,because they cannot afford them. This is referred to as absolute poverty, relative poverty is however the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. So the poor in USA is poor in the country, but relatively richer than the poor in India. But recently there was another type of poverty, the urban poverty which was the result of excessive spending over their basic income, over usage of credit cards, and excessive borrowing from banks......
Homelessness is the condition and social category of people without a regular house or dwelling because they cannot afford, or are otherwise unable to maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."
Street people are the segment of the homeless who spend substantial periods of time on the streets in urban areas. The actual legal definition varies from country to country, or among different entities or institutions in the same country or region. Some of the street people are old aged people without young relatives to take care or provide accommodation, others are mentally ill who just wonder around, yet there are others who volunteer to be street people due to their family problems or social problem e.g. drug addicts.....
Is it because of the repel of the Rent Control Act, without providing them the alternative accommodation or low cost houses; that forced them to live in the street as street people? .......
How many of the hardcore poor are in Penang; how many street people in Penang, and is there many homeless people in Penang?......
Look at the video, and you will understand that there are another segment of Penang lang, the marginal segment you may not be aware or encounter personally....
It is not good for city to have too many street people and homeless people around, which means there is still many people who are not affording basic human needs. Will the city help them to meet their basic needs?......
What have the welfare department done to sent the old folks street people to old folk home; the kids to orphanage; and the mentally ill for the medical treatment; and the drug addicts to rehabilitation home....
Too many street people will affect the image of Heritage City; have we take care of another living heritage, the people in the Heritage City, the poor Penang Lang.....
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