Social

The social stressors of being part of the homeless veterans population is not being able to have adequate nighttime residence. (Tessler, Rosenheck, & Gamache, 2002) Many homeless vets fall into living in areas such as abandon houses or even a vehicle they once owned, some go and start to live in homeless shelters. (Tessler et al., 2002) Their interacting with others around them cause them to socially cost the government money since they are more likely to be hospitalized than any other group out there. (Tessler et al., 2002)

Psychological

A psychological stressor that homeless veterans face is PTSD, which gives them a hard time living in society after returning from war. (Tessler et al., 2002) Studies showed that before veterans become homeless, some were chronically diagnosed with a mental health condition: they were slowly showing signs of getting to the point of becoming homelessness. (Margot B. Kushel & Vittinghoff, 2001) Once they become homeless they meet people with different types of mental health disorders, these are now their peers and people they’ll get to know day by day and will even provided stuff they either need or want, such as drugs. (Tessler et al., 2002) Many homeless veterans are found to be homeless due to drug abuse or other substance abuse like alcohol. (Tessler et al., 2002) Many would come into contact with other disease like HBV (Hepatitis B), which is liver failure, the scarring of the liver and even death. (Gelberg et al., 2001)

Economic/Educational

The economic stressor of being apart of the homeless veterans is being without money almost all the time. (Tessler et al., 2002) Not having a home makes them realize that their only option is the streets, now they are in search for a comfortable place to sleep for nights to come. (Tessler et al., 2002) It’s tough for homeless people to receive health care since there are a lot of barriers they need to go through just to receive it. (Margot B. Kushel & Vittinghoff, 2001) Since they cannot receive healthcare or even have money to afford the help they need, they will die at a young age or continue to use substance abuse to help them better cope with what they have or know. (Margot B. Kushel & Vittinghoff, 2001) Since homeless veterans are more likely to have had an educational background, many believed they would not end up homeless because of it. (Tessler et al., 2002)

Health

The physical health stressors that the homeless veterans face are diabetes and heart disease (“Health Care,” 2015). These are to be found very high in the homeless community, on top of that they are also susceptible to injuries and ailments from living in the outdoors (“Health Care,” 2015). Many of these homeless veterans suffer from trauma, either during their homelessness or before and because of this it is difficult for them to approach their health condition (“Health Care,” 2015). Since treatment is difficult for the homeless population to take care of because they either lack insurance coverage or unable to get into contact with health care providers in their community. (“Health Care,” 2015)

Political

The political stressor of being part of the homeless veteran population is not being able to afford housing (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2014). Since polices aren’t helping them afford housing and there isn’t much housing in rural areas, they benefit nothing from other policies (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2014). Another way to help the homeless community is to increase SSI to help more with disabilities (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2014). Give them temporary worker fairness and protection act, which means they can get a job and keep it, without a job they have no income and eventually it can lead to homelessness (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2014).

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