@article{2018,title={THE HOMELESS: A SPECIAL SHAME OF THE RICH COUNTRIES, IN PARTICULAR},abstractNode={Homeless people in many countries constitute a big social problem as well as a shame for humanity, in modern times. What is hard to grasp is the existence of the problem in aggravated degrees in rich, developed western societies. How come those exemplary countries cannot come up with a clean exact solution, regarding this social wound? The former Iron Countries might have overcome the problem, leaving no citizen of theirs below the so-called bread-line; but at the cost of an extremely authoritarian, totalitarian and even crushing rule, where all kinds of freedoms (speech, expression, travelling, press, creed, venture etc.) were absolutely and literally abolished. The two opposite regimes, liberal and socialist, seem to be equally hopeless, in this respect! This article contains the related explanatory theories, makes comparisons across the world regarding the subjects of the topic of street people. The article also offers cross sections from a realistic American novel, which deals with the problem in question, in minute detail. (Meanwhile, it must be asserted that the tragic situation of the victims of current local wars and political refugees is a gigantic topic entirely beyond the scope of this work).},author={Sinan ÇAYA},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}