ABSTRACT
To speak about rural homelessness in Finland today sounds like a provocation. Since the seminal work by Pekka Haatanen on rural poverty in Finland (Haatanen, 1968), the topic of rural homelessness has not really been on the research agenda. I share the contention with Cloke et al. (2000) that rurality, on the one hand, and homelessness, on the other, have been constructed in such a manner that their linkages have become difficult to recognize. I shall not seek a recoupling of rurality and homelessness by way of a simple conceptual extension of their meanings. My writing strategy is not to start with a critique but rather to end with a challenge.
