This marked the end of the Great Depression.How the Other Half Lives and Jack Londons The People of the Abyss (1903) discussed homelessness and raised public awareness, which caused some changes in building codes and some social conditions. In England, dormitory housing called "spikes" was provided by local boroughs. By the 1930s in England, there were 30,000 people living in these facilities. In 1933, George Orwell wrote about poverty in London and Paris, in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. In general, in most countries, many towns and cities had an area that contained the poor, transients, and afflicted, such as a "skid row". In New York City, for example, there was an area known as "the Bowery", traditionally, where people with an alcohol use disorder were to be found sleeping on the streets, bottle in hand. In the 1960s in the UK, nature and growing problem of homelessness changed in England as public concern grew. The number of people living "rough" in the streets had increased dramatically. However, beginning with the Conservative administrations Rough Sleeper Initiative, the number of people sleeping rough in London fell dramatically.
Homeless Sam & Sally, a 2020 dark comedy film and a television series with the same name released in 2019, is about a story regarding a mother named Sally Silver and her mentally ill son Sam Silver who comes up with ways to live normal lives while being homeless in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Dark Days, 2000, 81 minutes, documentary by Marc Singer, who followed the lives of people living in the Freedom Tunnel, an Amtrak tunnel in New York City. Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, 2003 film about a homeless girl, Liz Murray, who works her way up to admission to Harvard University. 66 Months, a 2011 British documentary film about a homeless man who makes it on his own for 6 years without any government programs helping him. The Pursuit of Happyness, a 2006 biographical film where a father and son struggle to get a job and end up homeless after an eviction and later a tax garnishment. After several weeks living from place to place in 1981 San Francisco, he lands a permanent position in a brokerage firm after successfully completing an unpaid internship. Same Kind of Different as Me, 2017 American film about a successful art dealer, his wife and an initially violent member of a homeless shelter community. It is based on the 2006 book of the same name. Curly Sue, a 1991 comedy drama film that focuses on a homeless con artist and his friend who gets lucky with a roof over their heads by tricking a wealthy attorney.