ABSTRACT
Little is known about rural homelessness in England. Despite the suggestion that one in five of all homeless people live in rural areas, and analysis pointing to a recent increase in rural homelessness (Cloke et al., 2001a; Countryside Agency, 2004), the incidence, extent and experiences of homelessness in rural England remain points of conjecture rather than conviction. Discursively denied, politically neglected and hidden from view, rural homelessness is invisible in accounts of homelessness in England.
