‘Living in despair and hopelessness’: A lack of affordable housing can put people’s health at risk [cnn.com]

At least where I come from, homeless people include many who are impoverished and/or have been evicted from their rented residence while, if not due to, suffering significant mental health tribulations.

It's additionally offensive that these people who cannot afford/maintain an official residence are, by extension, too poor to be permitted to practice what's frequently described with plenty platitudes as all citizens' right to vote in elections.   

Seemingly, some people can be considered disposable. Even to an otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nation, their worth(lessness) is measured basically by their 'productivity' or lack thereof. Those people may then begin perceiving themselves as worthless and accordingly live their daily lives more haphazardly.

Albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, a somewhat similar inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations: The worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers. Thus, those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.