Chapter One -- The Role of the Handbook
Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace
Section One -- An Introduction to Homelessness
Chapter Two -- Historical Perspectives on Homelessness
Eoin O'Sullivan
Chapter Three -- Causation
Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Four -- Defining and Counting Homelessness
Dan Treglia and Dennis Culhane
Chapter Five -- Responding to Homelessness: making the human right to housing a reality in Scotland?
Isobel Anderson
Chapter Six -- Homelessness and Welfare Systems
Lars Benjaminsen
Chapter Seven -- COVID-19
Nicholas Pleace
Section Two -- Homelessness across Different Disciplines
Chapter Eight -- Crime, Punishment and Homelessness
Eoin O'Sullivan
Chapter Nine -- Homelessness and Social Work: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
Susanne Gerull
Chapter Ten -- Homelessness in Human Geography
Jessie Speer
Chapter Eleven -- Homelessness Through a Feminist Lens
Juliet Watson
Chapter Twelve -- Evidence-Based Approaches to Guide Health Providers for People Experiencing Vulnerable Housing and Complex Needs
Kevin Pottie, Olivia Magwood, Ammar Saad, Sihyun (Shaun) Baek and Alex Lee
Section Three -- The Dimensions of Homelessness
Chapter Thirteen -- Gender
Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Fourteen -- LGBTQ+ People and Homelessness
Jama Shelton
Chapter Fifteen -- Youth
Paula Mayock and Sarah Parker
Chapter Sixteen -- Children and Families
Deborah Quilgars and Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Seventeen -- Migration and Ethnicity
Teresa Consoli
Chapter Eighteen -- Rural Dimensions of Homelessness
Mark Bevan
Chapter Nineteen -- Veteran Homelessness
Stephen Metraux and Emily Moore
Chapter Twenty -- Homelessness and health through the lens of social quality
Judith Wolf and Maša Filipovič Hrast
Chapter Twenty-one -- Complex Needs and Housing First
Nicholas Pleace
Chapter Twenty-two -- Homelessness and Substance Use
Paula Mayock and Branagh O'Shaughnessy
Chapter Twenty-three -- Costs
Nicholas Pleace
Section Four -- International Experience of Homelessness
Chapter Twenty-four -- Home Truths: Homelessness in Australia
Guy Johnson, Fiona Carey and Sue McCallum
Chapter Twenty-five -- Modern Mass Homelessness in Canada
Stephen Gaetz
Chapter Twenty-six -- Homelessness in China
Della Qiu, Carole Zufferey and Siyi Tang
Chapter Twenty-seven -- Homelessness in Denmark
Lars Benjaminsen
Chapter Twenty-eight -- Homelessness in Finland
Saija Turunen and Riitta Granfelt
Chapter Twenty-nine -- Homelessness in Germany
Volker Busch-Geertsema
Chapter Thirty -- Homelessness in Hungary
Nóra Teller, Fruzsina Albert, Boróka Fehér and Péter Győri
Chapter Thirty-one -- Ireland and Homelessness
Sarah Sheridan and Sarah Parker
Chapter Thirty-two -- Homelessness in Italy
Caterina Cortese and Teresa M. Consoli
Chapter Thirty-three -- Homelessness in Japan
Yoshihiro Okamoto and Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Thirty-four -- Homelessness in Poland
Magdalena Mostowska
Chapter Thirty-five -- Homelessness in Portugal
Isabel Baptista
Chapter Thirty-six -- Homelessness in Slovenia
Maša Filipovič Hrast
Chapter Thirty-seven -- Sweden
Marcus Knutagård
Chapter Thirty-eight -- UK
Nicholas Pleace and Joanne Bretherton
Chapter Thirty-nine -- Homelessness in the United States
Samantha Batko and Dennis Culhane
Chapter Forty -- Homelessness in Montevideo: policy implications and future challenges
Fiorella Ciapessoni
Chapter Forty-one -- Homelessness Futures
Nicholas Pleace and Joanne Bretherton