No there have not "always been homeless people." In most of human history in most cultures of mankind, there just were not homeless people. In the essay "On Cannibals" Michel de Montaigne documents the horrific surprise that Brazilian Natives had upon visiting Europe and learning about homelessness. In their language the word for human was "my other half." Homelessness is a unique product of Western civilization, Automation, Industrialization, and the culture of the United States of America.
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William Schaeffer
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