ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the need for urgent accommodations for the homeless. But, in order to do so it is necessary, first, to deal with the heterogeneity of homelessness and the related concept of social exclusion; it is necessary briefly to discuss and clarify the concepts and to dwell shortly on the question of accommodation. Somehow homelessness is a sub-category of social exclusion, though the definitions are not very clear. The chapter outlines two central concepts for an understanding and evaluation of homelessness in the Danish society. The traditional homeless group will also have broken family relations behind them, as well as broken relations to the labour market with which they might once have had a more or less stable relationship. The relational ties taken into consideration are those of family and network, of the labour market, of the social services especially those directed towards the homeless and of the ties to society as such.
