Homelessness is the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence" - wikipedia 
Consumption choices may lead us to a treadmill of high expenses, stressful work, and an inability to express our core values. We may trade wonderful time with family and friends — and simply being — for unnecessary things. We may move so quickly that we fail to use our values to guide our purchases and investments.
Some of us get caught up in the search for the atomic unity of neighborhoods: "Everything that happens in or to neighborhoods must connect to individuals and households of a particular neighborhood."
Among the first computerised visual data analysis applications in history has been the display of the dynamics of household composition, originally created by the Swedish Demographic Database at Umeå in the 1970s (Janssens, 1989). Time runs from left to right, starting with the moment of household formation. Children enter the graph when they are born and leave the graph when they die or migrate from the household. The same procedure is kept for parents, grandparents, other relatives and lodgers. In this visual way, a comparison can be made between the dynamics of various households.