Homelessness

An encampment of unhoused people in the United States.

Homelessness refers to a lack of stable, permanent, and livable housing. Under capitalism, homelessness is an endemic social issue, with housing being privatized and treated as a commodity to be sold and maintained for profit by landlords and capitalists and not regarded as a human need. In socialist states, housing was treated as a right and homelessness was largely eliminated.

See also

• Landlordism
• Social death