stephen eide's. -- stephen eide. guest: good question.stion that the homeless are disproportionately minority. this proportionately black especially. what is made about the history of the phenomenon and i have spent a lot of time researching is that homelessness used to be disproportionately white. do not use the term homeless in the 50's or the 1890's. but the population who was very poor, not attached to families or communities, the place list population, we used to call them hobos, bones, they were the white people in the skidrow neighborhoods. white guys. the black population of america was extremely poor at that time and they also experienced an enormous amount of social discrimination. but for whatever reason, that did not lead them into the homeless population, essentially. that starts picking up and completely flipping actually in the letter decades of the 20th century. when you start seeing more black people comprising the population living out of subways and in the streets. so forth. there is no question as he alludes to in his

host: good morning, you are on with stephen eide. of your information that resonated was what you are classifying as a loss of relationships rather than a loss of just the physical place to stay. and that boils down to the root cause. it brought up a few different ways that i see it happening and ways that -- one of which -- more than one of which i experienced. whether that is you are in a relationship as far as innate spousal -- in a spousal function, like a significant other that there is a family and that goes south and all of a sudden, whether it is courts or living arrangements or being in a different city, all of a sudden you are left without a home. there is also what i have begun to think about recently, a lot of people growing up, you see inherit a parents estate or even just a home. more and more i think i have been seeing the generation that is our parents -- i'm in my 30's. and this is dependent upon income class. a lot of our parents are taking equity out against their homes, whether it is because they don't get enough

host: good morning, you are on with stephen eide. f your information that resonated was what you are classifying as a loss of relationships rather than a loss of just the physical place to stay. and that boils down to the root cause. it brought up a few different ways that i see it happening and ways that -- one of which -- more than one of which i experienced. whether that is you are in a relationship as far as innate spousal -- in a spousal function, like a significant other that there is a family and that goes south and all of a sudden, whether it is courts or living arrangements or being in a different city, all of a sudden you are left without a home. there is also what i have begun to think about recently, a lot of people growing up, you see inherit a parents estate or even just a home. more and more i think i have been seeing the generation that is our parents -- i'm in my 30's. and this is dependent upon income class. a lot of our parents are taking equity out against their homes, whether it is because they don't get enough fr