Draft:Outline of homelessness

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to homelessness:

Types of homelessness

 * Couch surfing
 * Family homelessness

History of homelessness

 * History of homelessness

Causes of homelessness

 * Disability
 * Eviction
 * Extreme poverty
 * Foreclosure
 * Gentrification
 * Natural disasters
 * Underemployment
 * Unemployment
 * War

Dangers of homelessness

 * Hypothermia
 * Scabies

General homelessness concepts

 * Affordable housing
 * Ahvaz
 * Alcoholics
 * Alcoholism
 * American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
 * Anna Tibaijuka
 * Anti-homelessness legislation
 * Apartment
 * Autism spectrum disorder
 * Back on My Feet (non-profit organization)
 * Beggar
 * Begging
 * Bergie
 * Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 * Binner
 * Boarding house
 * Boston Common (park)
 * Bowery
 * Bridewell
 * Bumvertising
 * Bus
 * Business Insider
 * Busking
 * Café
 * Canton of Geneva
 * Cardboard box
 * Cardboard boxes
 * Catch-22 (logic)
 * Cathy Come Home
 * Charleroi
 * Christmas Shelters
 * Chuck Currie
 * Church body
 * Civil defense
 * Co-operative living arrangements
 * Cohabitation
 * Community Mental Health Act
 * Contemporary Economic Policy
 * Continuum of Care
 * Convicts
 * Cooling center
 * County jail
 * Credit score
 * Crisis (charity)
 * Dark Days (film)
 * David Cappo
 * Deinstitutionalisation
 * Department for Communities and Local Government
 * Derelict
 * Developing country
 * Digital object identifier
 * Dignity Village
 * Discrimination against the homeless
 * Disownment
 * Domestic violence
 * Domestic violence shelter
 * Down and Out in Paris and London
 * Drifter (person)
 * Dumpster
 * Dwelling
 * Earthquake
 * Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
 * Electronic Privacy Information Center
 * Emergency management
 * Empowerment
 * English Poor Laws
 * Exploitation of labor
 * Extended family
 * FEANTSA
 * Federal government of the United States
 * Flagellation
 * Flophouse
 * Food Not Bombs
 * Food bank
 * Foreclosure
 * Forgotten man
 * Four penny coffin
 * Foyer (housing model)
 * Freedom Tunnel
 * Freighthopping
 * Frontline Foundation
 * Frostbite
 * Gaol
 * Gender identity
 * George Orwell
 * Georges Menahem
 * Gini coefficient
 * God Bless the Child (film)
 * Goodwill Industries
 * Grassroots
 * Great Depression
 * Group home
 * Göteborg
 * HIV/AIDS
 * Habitat for Humanity
 * Habitual residence
 * Hatchback
 * Healthcare
 * Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009
 * Heritage Foundation
 * Highways
 * Hobo
 * Homeless
 * Homeless (disambiguation)
 * Homeless Bill of Rights
 * Homeless Friendly Precincts
 * Homeless International
 * Homeless Persons' Week
 * Homeless Vulnerability Index
 * Homeless World Cup
 * Homeless children
 * Homeless dumping
 * Homeless ministry
 * Homeless shelter
 * Homeless shelters
 * Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
 * Homeless veterans in the United States
 * Homeless women in the United States
 * Homelessness Action Week
 * Homelessness among LGBT youth in the United States
 * Homelessness and Aging
 * Homelessness and mental health
 * Homelessness services
 * Hoovervilles
 * Hotel
 * House
 * Household
 * Housing First
 * Housing first
 * Housing inequality
 * How the Other Half Lives
 * Human migration
 * Human rights
 * Hurricane
 * Hygiene program
 * I Have A Name
 * Institute of Medicine
 * Integrated Authority File
 * Interagency Council on Homelessness
 * Interest group
 * Intermodal container
 * Internally displaced person
 * International Standard Book Number
 * International Year of Shelter for the Homeless
 * Internet begging
 * Internet cafes
 * Interstates
 * JSTOR
 * Jack London
 * Jammu and Kashmir
 * Japan
 * Jesus Christ
 * Job Corps
 * Kochi
 * Kommunalka
 * Ladakh
 * Lanterman–Petris–Short Act
 * Library of Congress Control Number
 * List of countries by homeless population
 * List of homelessness organizations
 * List of street newspapers
 * Litter
 * Liz Murray
 * Lodging
 * London
 * Maharashtra
 * Malawi
 * Male
 * Marc Singer (documentarian)
 * Mare Winningham
 * Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet
 * McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
 * McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act
 * Mental disorder
 * Mental health
 * Mental illness
 * Michael E. Arth
 * Minimum wage
 * Mole People
 * Mole people
 * Motel
 * Motels
 * Mumbai
 * NOW on PBS
 * National Alliance to End Homelessness
 * National Coalition for the Homeless
 * National Diet Library
 * Nea Ionia
 * Net cafe refugee
 * Net cafe refugees
 * New York City Subway
 * No fixed abode
 * Nomad
 * Non-governmental organization
 * North Rhine-Westphalia
 * Nutrition
 * October Revolution
 * Office of Civil Defense
 * Orphans in the Soviet Union
 * Pabbajja
 * Palm Beach Post
 * Panhandling
 * Parasite single
 * Park
 * Pathways to Housing
 * Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
 * Peasants' Revolt
 * Pejorative
 * Penny sit-up
 * Personal infrastructure
 * Perspectives on Psychological Science
 * Philippa Howden-Chapman
 * Pick-up truck
 * Plasmapheresis
 * Poverty
 * Prison
 * Pro bono
 * Propiska in the Soviet Union
 * PubMed Central
 * PubMed Identifier
 * Public Broadcasting Service
 * Public libraries
 * Public transportation
 * RAND
 * Rail yard
 * Randall Amster
 * Rapid Re-Housing
 * Real Change
 * Recluse
 * Recreational vehicle
 * Relational care
 * Right to housing
 * Romani people
 * Roommate
 * Roomsharing
 * Rosanne Haggerty
 * Rosie's Place
 * Runaway (dependent)
 * Running
 * SAMHSA
 * Saint Francis House (Boston)
 * San'ya
 * Sandwich board
 * Schizophrenia
 * Schnorrer
 * School bus
 * Section 8 (housing)
 * Sedan (car)
 * Self-sustainability
 * Serfdom in Russia
 * Settlement movement
 * Sewerage
 * Sexual orientation
 * Shack
 * Shanty town
 * Shantytown
 * Single Room Occupancy
 * Single person
 * Sinti
 * Skid row
 * Sleeping bag
 * Sobriety
 * Social exclusion
 * Social welfare
 * Solitude
 * Soup kitchen
 * Spare Change News
 * Sport utility vehicle
 * Squatting
 * Station wagon
 * Stewart McKinney (politician)
 * Stocks
 * Street News
 * Street Roots
 * Street Sense (newspaper)
 * Street Sheet
 * Street children
 * Street children in Bangladesh
 * Street children in Eastern Europe
 * Street children in India
 * Street children in Latin America
 * Street children in the Philippines
 * Street newspaper
 * Street newspapers
 * Street people
 * StreetWise
 * Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
 * Substance abuse
 * Substandard
 * Supported Accommodation Assistance Program
 * Supportive housing
 * Taitō
 * Tarpaulin
 * Temple University Beasley School of Law
 * Tent
 * Tent city
 * The Big Issue
 * The People of the Abyss
 * The Salvation Army
 * The Washington Times
 * ThinkProgress
 * Thomas Menino
 * Train station
 * Tramp
 * Transitional housing
 * Traumatic brain injury
 * Travelodge
 * Travelodge UK
 * Tuberculosis
 * Underground living
 * UN-HABITAT
 * UNESCO
 * UNICEF
 * United Kingdom
 * United Nations
 * United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
 * United Nations Environment Programme
 * United Nations General Assembly
 * United Nations Human Settlements Programme
 * United States Conference of Mayors
 * United States Department of Health and Human Services
 * United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
 * United States Department of Labor
 * United States Department of Veterans Affairs
 * United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
 * Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 * University of Oregon
 * Vagabond (person)
 * Vagrancy (people)
 * Van
 * Voice Mail
 * Vulnerability Index
 * WBUR
 * WFXT
 * Wall of kindness
 * War
 * Warming center
 * Warming centers
 * Waste management
 * Waste picker
 * Wayback Machine
 * Western world
 * Women's shelter
 * Work ethic
 * Workforce Investment Act
 * Workhouse
 * Yonge Street
 * Youth Homelessness Matters Day

Homelessness by region

 * Homelessness in Africa
 * Homelessness in South Africa
 * Homelessness in Asia
 * Homelessness in China
 * Homelessness in India
 * Homelessness in Japan
 * Homelessness in Australia
 * Homelessness in Europe
 * Homelessness in Denmark
 * Homelessness in France
 * Homelessness in Germany
 * Homelessness in Greece
 * Homelessness in Ireland
 * Homelessness in Russia
 * Homelessness in Vatican City
 * Homelessness in the United Kingdom
 * Homelessness in England
 * Homelessness in Scotland
 * Homelessness in the Middle East
 * Homelessness in Iraq
 * Homelessness in Israel
 * Homelessness in North America
 * Homelessness in Canada
 * Homelessness in Vancouver
 * Homelessness in the United States
 * Homelessness in San Francisco
 * Homelessness in Seattle
 * Homelessness in New Zealand


 * Homelessness in popular culture

Housing

 * Housing

Homeless services

 * Housing programs