This list is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into fourteen general categories: Causes; Cities; Demography and Characteristics; Health Issues; History; Housing; Legal Issues, Advocacy, and Policy; Lifestyle Issues; Organizations; Perceptions of Homelessness; Populations; Research; Service Systems and Settings; and World Perspectives and Issues. Some entry titles appear in more than one category.

• Causes

• Abeyance Theory
• Causes of Homelessness: Overview
• Deindustrialization
• Deinstitutionalization
• Gentrification
• Housing and Homelessness in Developing Nations
• Housing, Affordable
• Liminality
• Marginality
• Social Welfare Policy and Income Maintenance
• Stressful Life Events
• Trauma and Victimization

• Cities

• Boston
• Bowery, The
• Calcutta
• Chicago Skid Row
• Copenhagen
• Dallas
• Houston
• London
• Los Angeles
• Minneapolis and St. Paul
• Montreal
• Mumbai (Bombay)
• Nairobi
• New York City
• Paris
• Philadelphia
• St. Louis
• Sydney
• Tokyo
• Toronto
• Washington, D.C.

• Demography and Characteristics

• Hidden Homelessness
• Homelessness, Course of
• Homelessness, Definitions and Estimates of
• Homelessness, Patterns of
• Homelessness, Rural
• Homelessness, Suburban

• Health Issues

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Children, Impact of Homelessness on
• Disorders and Health Problems: Overview
• Food Programs
• Health Care
• HIV and AIDS
• Hunger and Nutrition
• Interventions, Clinical
• Mental Health System
• Mental Illness and Health

• History

• Appendix 4: Documentary History of Homelessness
• Bowery, The
• Chicago Skid Row
• Great Depression
• Literature, Hobo and Tramp
• Municipal Lodging Houses
• Poorhouses
• Skid Row Culture and History
• Workhouses

• Housing

• Fair Housing Laws
• Housing and Homelessness in Developing Nations
• Housing, Affordable
• Housing, Transitional
• “Housing First” Approach
• Safe Havens
• Self-Help Housing
• Shelters
• Single-Room Occupancy Hotels

• Legal Issues, Advocacy, and Policy

• Fair Housing Laws
• Homeless Court Program
• Homeless Organizing
• Legal Advocacy
• Legislation, Programs, and Policies, U.S. Federal
• Prevention of Homelessness: Overview
• Vagrancy
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• Lifestyle Issues

• Appendix 3: Directory of Street Newspapers
• Child Care
• Child Support
• Criminal Activity and Policing
• Encampments, Urban
• Libraries: Issues in Serving the Homeless
• Mobility
• Panhandling
• Parenting
• Prostitution
• Shelters
• Single-Room Occupancy Hotels
• Soup Kitchens
• Social Support
• Street Newspapers
• Survival Strategies
• Work on the Streets

• Organizations

• American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
• Association of Gospel Rescue Missions
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• European Network for Housing Research
• FEANTSA
• Goodwill Industries International
• Homeless International
• International Network of Street Newspapers
• International Union of Tenants
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
• National Center on Family Homelessness
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
• Salvation Army
• UN-HABITAT
• Urban Institute
• Wilder Research Center

• Perceptions of Homelessness

• Appendix 1: Bibliography of Autobiographical and Fictional Accounts of Homelessness
• Appendix 2: Filmography of American Narrative and Documentary Films on Homelessness
• Autobiography and Memoir, Contemporary Homelessness
• Images of Homelessness in Contemporary Documentary Film
• Images of Homelessness in Narrative Film, History of
• Images of Homelessness in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
• Images of Homelessness in the Media
• Literature, Hobo and Tramp
• Photography
• Public Opinion

• Populations

• African-Americans
• Families
• Latino(a)s
• Older Homeless Persons
• Street Youth and Violence
• Veterans
• Women
• Youth, Homeless

• Research

• Appendix 5: Master Bibliography of Publications on Homelessness
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Epidemiology
• Ethnography
• Program Evaluation Research
• Research on Homelessness: Overview
• Service Utilization Research

• Service Systems and Settings

• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
• Case Management
• Children, Education of
• Continuum of Care
• Family Separations and Reunifications
• Food Programs
• Foster Care
• Harm Reduction
• Health Care
• Homeless Assistance Services and Networks
• Housing, Transitional
• “Housing First” Approach
• Interventions, Clinical
• Interventions, Housing
• Mental Health System
• Outreach
• Poorhouses
• Safe Havens
• Self-Help Housing
• Service Integration
• Shelters
• Single-Room Occupancy Hotels
• Soup Kitchens
• Work on the Streets
• Workhouses

• World Perspectives and Issues

• Australia
• Bangladesh
• Brazil
• Calcutta
• Canada
• Copenhagen
• Cuba
• Denmark
• Egypt
• France
• Germany
• Homelessness, International Perspectives on
• Housing and Homelessness in Developing Nations
• Indonesia
• Italy
• Japan
• London
• Montreal
• Mumbai (Bombay)
• Nairobi
• Netherlands
• Nigeria
• Paris
• Russia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Sydney
• Tokyo
• Toronto
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom, Rural
• Zimbabwe