ABSTRACT

This book explores the extent, causes and characteristics of homelessness in developing countries. Bringing together a major review of literature and empirical case studies, it is invaluable for those studying, researching or working in housing, homelessness, social policy or urban poverty.

Drawing on local research in nine countries in the global south, this book offers an insight into the lives of homeless people, public perceptions of homelessness, and the policies and interventions which might variously increase or reduce homelessness. Exploring the human context as well as policy and planning, it will challenge preconceptions.

chapter 1|10 pages

Current understandings of homelessness

chapter 6|19 pages

Estimating the hidden millions

chapter 8|24 pages

Economic, social and cultural causes

chapter 9|16 pages

Political and legal issues

chapter 10|14 pages

Disaster and conflict

chapter 11|13 pages

Exclusion, perceptions and isolation

chapter 12|27 pages

Children and homelessness