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With the difficulties faced in categorizing people who are homeless and those who are not, an estimate of homeless individuals are considered to be around 3.5 million people, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless 2002 (Shi & Sing, 2004). It should be added that there are also the “hidden homeless” and the “invisible homeless” with the former to include the people who has the chance of having temporary shelters with homes of friends and families and the latter are those who simply are not included in the count (Altman, Wohlwill, & Everett, 1981).
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McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, the homeless are those “who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence or a person who resides in a shelter, welfare hotel, transitional program or place not ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations, such as streets, cars, movie theatres, abandoned buildings, etc.” (as cited in Chesnay & Anderson, 2007, p. While it is seen that defining who the homeless are, a clear understanding of the concept is still required because of the implications that this has over addressing the issue. In a video uploaded at YouTube that presents an interview with Chris Gardner, he mentions that when they needed to choose whether to eat or have shelter, they chose to eat and that led them with no permanent residence for a certain period of their lives (Litehammers, 2006). It is a movie that revolved around the life of Chris Gardner and his son Christopher, who is played by Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, as they constantly move from one shelter to another with the feeling of uncertainty as to where the two would live next. Homelessness is a sociological problem that is strongly and creatively presented throughout the movie “Pursuit of Happyness,” which narrates the inspirational story of Chris Gardner as played by Will Smith.