The second is insecure housing.
These women are often living in inappropriate or insecure housing, or are homeless.
The problems were many: violence on the street, abuse in the women's past, illness, anger, obesity, insecure housing or financial circumstances.
According to Ross, "the world of the communards" – migratory lives, precarious work, insecure housing – "is much closer to us than that of our parents".
Unsurprisingly, housing is prominent; as well as homelessness, insecure housing and problems accessing housing services, the report points out that the high cost of housing and childcare is an insurmountable obstacle for many people wishing to escape poverty.
I question society's fixation with owning when tenants do not have enough money to buy, because in England they are obliged to spend on average 47% of their income renting draughty, insecure houses.
While politicians need to show that they understand what it is like to be low-waged and in insecure housing, they are more reassuring if we think they can do something beyond feeling.
Adult social care workers may often be well placed to identify families whose children are at risk of gang involvement: for example, where parents have mental health conditions, difficulties with drugs or alcohol, who live in insecure housing or have a history of imprisonment.
To make matters worse, Luis also had to deal with an unreliable car and insecure housing.
Those living in insecure housing have poor access to electricity, clean water, sanitation and waste disposal.
He blames poverty, hunger and insecure housing ― a constellation of injustices that he sums up as "historical trauma" ― on the high rates of addiction in his majority Native and Latino community.
