There are a lot of people homeless these days and for sure, they are deprived of the proper sleeping habits mainly because they find themselves in strange places without the benefit of an ideal sleep setting.

For the fortunate people like us, we do not have the luxury of understanding such inconvenience. But this cause being made via the Fourth Annual Siouxland Sleep-Out at the Lewis and Clark Park on November 7 should help give us an idea of just how the people without homes manage to sleep despite such outdoor conditions.

There are around 21,000 homeless people in Iowa, according to Wood, and about 600 of them live in Siouxland. He said he expects those numbers to continue to grow due to flooding in eastern Iowa and the staggering economy.

“Poverty is the basic reason for homelessness, and certainly the poverty level increases as a result of the economy,” he said. “There’s got to be some trickle-down effect for that.”

(Source) Sioux City Journal

Tags: benefit, economy, homeless people, homelessness, inconvenience, lewis and clark park, poverty level, proper sleeping habits, sleep, strange places

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm and is filed under How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Events, Sleep Issues.
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