Homeless Women in Telangana State, Southern Part of India: A Cross - Sectional Study

Addressing the needs of homeless women, considered as twice disadvantaged forms an important component of integrated poverty alleviation. Many internal and extraneous factors drive women to homelessness and the right support rendered from their identification to disengagement from support paves way for their mainstreaming into life and society. The planning of support on individual basis as also on basis of patterns will properly enable the remedial activities. In addition they will give crucial insights into the preventive, mitigative and palliative measures that can be used at the societal level. The Central Government Missions on Urban and rural Livelihoods devotes significant efforts to address the issue of Homeless women through intensive focus on the component devoted to them. A multipronged approach that looks to address the psycho - social aspects of homelessness is employed but gaps in the same would lead to relapse into homelessness. This needs to be studied. Many international indices point out to sustainable home environment, poverty alleviation and safety of its citizens which need to be built into ongoing government initiatives so that at the larger level many issues that could be directly or indirectly related to homelessness can be positively addressed. The report will deal with all of these issues in a comprehensive manner.