Homelessness is the condition and societal category of people who lack fixed housing, usually because they cannot afford a regular, safe, and adequate shelter. The term "homelessness" may also include people whose primary nighttime residence is in a homeless shelter, in an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
1966. Cathy Come Home at the Internet Movie Database - An influential film by Ken Loach which raised the profile of homelessness in the UK and led indirectly to the formation of several charities and changes in legislation.
1986. Down and Out in Beverly Hills at the Internet Movie Database
1991. Life Stinks at the Internet Movie Database
1994. With Honors at the Internet Movie Database
1997. La Vendedora de Rosas at the Internet Movie Database
2003. Homeless to Harvard: the Liz Murray Story at the Internet Movie Database -- see Liz Murray
2006. The Pursuit of Happyness at the Internet Movie Database - the story of Chris Gardner
2005 Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America by Michelle Kennedy
1985. Streetwise at the Internet Movie Database -- follows homeless Seattle youth.
1997. The Street: A Film with the Homeless at the Internet Movie Database -- about the Canadian homeless in Montreal. New York Times Review,
2000 Dark Days at the Internet Movie Database -- A film following the lifes of homeless adults living in the Amtrak tunnels in New York.
2001 Children Underground at the Internet Movie Database -- Following the lifes of homeless children in Bucharest, Romania.
2003. À Margem da Imagem at the Internet Movie Database -- about the homeless in São Paulo, Brazil. Its English title is "On the Fringes of São Paulo: Homeless".
2004. Homeless in America at the Internet Movie Database
2005 Children of Leningradsky at the Internet Movie Database -- About homeless children in Moscow.
2005 Reversal of Fortune at the Internet Movie Database -- Explores what a homeless who is given $100,000 and is free to do with it whatever he wishes.
2007 Easy Street -- about the homeless in Florida.
1988. Home Sweet Homeless at the Internet Movie Database
2005. Photographic expose by Michel Mersereau entitled "Between The Cracks"
nomads
Itinerants
Carnies
Circuit rider
Freight train hoppers
Gutter punks
Gypsies (Roma people)
Gyrovagues
Hoboes
Mendicants
Perpetual travelers
Technomads
Vagabond (person)
Vagrancy (people)
Rough sleepers
Street children
Tramps
Refugees
Economic migrants
Internally displaced persons
Schnorrer
Flophouses
Substance abuse
Squatting in abandoned houses
Poverty
Panhandling and begging
Homelessness in Europe
Housing authority
Homeless World Cup
Bumvertising
Tafari, Jack
Baumohl, Jim [27], (editor), "Homelessness in America", Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1996.
BBC News, "Warning over homelessness figures: Government claims that homelessness numbers have fallen by a fifth since last year should be taken with a health warning, says housing charity Shelter", Monday, 13 June 2005.
BBC Radio 4, "No Home, a season of television and radio programmes that introduce the new homeless.", 2006.
Booth, Brenda M., Sullivan, J. Greer, Koegel, Paul, Burnam, M. Audrey, "Vulnerability Factors for Homelessness Associated with Substance Dependence in a Community Sample of Homeless Adults", RAND Research Report. Originally published in: American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, v. 28, no. 3, 2002, pp. 429-452.
Charlton, Emma, "France to create 'legal right' to housing", Agence France-Presse news, January 3, 2006.
Coalition for the Homeless (New York), "A History of Modern Homelessness in New York City". [28]PDF
Cooper, Yvette, MP, "Effective Homelessness Prevention", April 12, 2006.
Crimaldi, Laura,"Homeless getting new lease on life", Boston Herald, December 11, 2006
Culhane, Dennis [29], "Responding to Homelessness: Policies and Politics", 2001. [30]
deMause, Neil, "Out of the Shelter, Into the Fire: New city program for homeless: Keep your job or keep your apartment", The Village Voice, New York, June 20, 2006. [31]
DePastino, Todd, "Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America", 2003. ISBN 0-226-14378-3
Duffy, Gary, "Brazil's homeless and landless unite", BBC News, Sao Paulo, April 17, 2007.
Institute for Governmental Studies, Berkeley, "Urban Homelessness & Public Policy Solutions: A One-Day Conference", January 22, 2001[32]
Kahn, Ric,"Buried in Obscurity", Boston Globe, December 17, 2006.
Kusmer, Kenneth L. [33], "Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History", Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-19-504778-8
Morton, Margaret, "The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless Of New York City", Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-300-06559-0
O'Brien, Matthew (author) and Mollohan, Danny (photographer). Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas. Huntington Press, 2007. ISBN 0-929-71239-0
Riis, Jacob, "How the Other Half Lives", 1890. [34]
Rossi, Peter H., "Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness", University Of Chicago Press, 1990.
Schutt, Russell K., Ph.D., Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston.

• Schutt, Russell K., et al., "Boston's Homeless, 1986-87: Change and Continuity", 1987.
  Schutt, Russell K., Working with the Homeless: the Backgrounds, Activities and Beliefs of Shelter Staff, 1988.
  Schutt, Russell, K., "Homeless Adults in Boston in 1990: A Two-Shelter Profile", 1990.
  Schutt, Russell K., Garrett, Gerald R., "Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice", Topics in Social Psychiatry, 1992. ISBN 0-306-44076-8
  Schutt, Russell K., Byrne, Francine, et al., "City of Boston Homeless Services: Employment & Training for Homeless Persons", 1995.
  Schutt, Russell K., Feldman, James, et al., "Homeless Persons' Residential Preferences and Needs: A Pilot Survey of Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Boston Mental Health and Generic Shelters", 2004.
  Sommer, Heidi, "Homelessness in Urban America: a Review of the Literature", 2001. [35]PDF (167 KiB)
  St. Mungo's organisation (UK), "A Brief History of Homelessness". [36]
  Sweeney, Richard.,"Out of Place: Homelessness in America", HarperCollins College Publishers, 1992.
  Vissing, Yvonne [37], "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America", 1996.
  Vissing, Yvonne, "The $ubtle War Against Children", Fellowship, March/April 2003. [38]
  Vladeck, Bruce, R., and the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People, Institute of Medicine, "Homelessness, Health, and Human needs", National Academies Press, 1988. [39]
  Toth, Jennifer, "The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City", 1993. ISBN 1-55652-190-1
  United States Conference of Mayors, "Hunger and Homelessness Survery", December 2005. [40]PDF (1.19 MiB) [41]
  The Borgen Project
  Homeless Statistics
  Salvation Army
  Scottish Borders Council Homelessness Services
  A US perspective
  A Canadian perspective
  An on-the-street perspective
  David Shankbone's "Street Sleepers" photograph series
  Les Enfants de Don Quichotte, French NGO which organized illegal camping-sites on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris end of December 2006-January 2007 in order to enforce the right to lodging (droit au logement).
  Toxic Playground: Growing Up In Skid Row
  Interview with a young Japanese homeless man