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This document is a policy paper from the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH). It establishes link between poor and homeless people and prostitution. Runaway youth and homeless women often fall prey to a dangerous life of prostitution. A 2003 study conducted by CCH found that 50 percent of women involved in prostitution had experienced homelessness. Many women and youth have engaged in survival sex, which is the exchange of sex for money, food, shelter, and other basic needs. Others become homeless or struggle to avoid it when they exit the sex trade, often the only means of support they have known. Even if services, housing, and job opportunities are accessible and available to survivors of prostitution, the problems inherent in the sex trade will remain unsolved if the demand side is not addressed will be conclusion of this paper. |
