The social discrimination of the homeless is present in most major urban cities and has been on the rise in the past years. In the US, homelessness has increased by 12% due to increasing rents and increasing living costs. These people also have a hard time finding jobs because jobs often have policies in place that discriminate against these people. Some cities have gone as far as to make homelessness a crime or restrict what actions can be done on the homeless. Benefits that normal people can get are often extremely limited to the homeless population, like healthcare and social services. Also, homeless people are often viewed in a negative light as stereotypes about homeless people being crime perpetrators or drug-addicts. Homeless people are ignored in society due to this stigma, which separates them further from society. Although not all homeless people are crime perpetrators, there are some who resort to a life of crime in order to survive. This shows how society has treated the homeless and forced them to commit things they wouldn’t have normally done. People find it hard to understand homeless people, as some people might say to “stop being lazy and get a job”, but this is often more complicated than just getting a job. The treatment of the homeless population can be compared to Grendel as they were both treated poorly and shunned by society. This shows how folklore can allude to real life events and there is relevance in fiction.
Bibliography:
News, A. B. C. “Why Experts Say Some Unhoused People Are Unfairly Assumed to Be Dangerous.” ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023, abcnews.go.com/Health/unhoused-people-perceived-dangerous/story?id=103751928
Freking, Kevin. “U.S. Homelessness up 12 Percent to Highest Reported Level as Rents Soar and Pandemic Aid Lapses.” PBS NewsHour, 15 Dec. 2023, www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-homelessness-up-12-percent-to-highest-reported-level-as-rents-soar-and-pandemic-aid-lapses
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