Defining homelessness

Volker Busch-Geertsema, Guy Johnson and Eoin O’Sullivan

Chapter 1 in Research Handbook on Homelessness, 2024, pp 12-22 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines various way homelessness has been defined. It starts by looking at two more prominent definitional approaches - objective and subjective definitions - that have been influential over time, before turning its attention to two contemporary attempts to develop a coherent conceptual basis for defining homelessness that enable comparative understanding of the extent of homelessness. The first focuses on the development of the European Typology on Homelessness and Housing Exclusion (ETHOS), and its operational categories. It then looks at recent work by scholars interested in establishing a global definition of homelessness, which also draws on ETHOS.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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