Rural homelessness: A geography without a geography

Lawrence, Mark Atwood

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(95)00025-i

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“…Centrepoint suggests that for youth ''the experience of running away may be very different in rural areas from that experienced in urban areas' ' (2001, p. 1). Voakes (1992) estimates that rural youth homelessness can be estimated at 3 per 1000 in overall population, although as Lawrence (1995) points out in his study of rural homelessness in Iowa, homeless populations can vary quite substantially between rural areas, depending on demographic shifts, economic distress and local transformations in patterns of labour. Surprisingly, in a 2002 high school questionnaire on youth homelessness in Lanark, Ontario, ''nearly 1/3 of the youths surveyed had left home at least once'' (Collins 2006).…”

Section: Youth Who Are Homeless: Geographies Of Homelessness and Invimentioning

confidence: 97%

Towards a Delivery System of Services for Rural Homeless Youth: A Literature Review and Case Study

Skott‐Myhre

Raby

Nikolaou³

2008

Child Youth Care Forum

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The majority of the literature on homelessness conceptualizes it as an urban problem and a wide body of research exists that provides estimates of metropolitan street youth and qualitatively describes their experiences. Similar descriptions and population estimates are virtually absent for youth who experience rural homelessness despite the number of urban homeless youth with rural origins. Indeed, although some metropolitan literature does remark on rural youth homelessness, it comments only on its invisible nature. This exclusion has significant implications in that it marginalizes the rural homeless and hinders the development of social policy to address the issues this population faces. Drawing on existing literature on rural youth homelessness, discussions with service providers in a rural area and a small number of interviews with youth, this paper begins to explore key issues facing homeless rural youth, existing intervention options and recommendations for the development of service delivery systems.

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Section: Youth Who Are Homeless: Geographies Of Homelessness and Invimentioning

confidence: 97%

Towards a Delivery System of Services for Rural Homeless Youth: A Literature Review and Case Study

Skott‐Myhre

Raby

Nikolaou³

2008

Child Youth Care Forum

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“…As such, they suggest that the rate of rural housing instability is similar to that in urban areas (Employment and Social Development Canada, 2011; United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, 2015). However, researchers in the United States (Fitchen, 1992;Lawrence, 1995) note that rural housing insecurity may be as ubiquitous as it is in urban settings, and homeless rates may be even higher than in urban areas when those living in substandard or unfit housing are included. Houses which would be routinely condemned in urban areas, fall outside of the view of local officials in rural areas and remain inhabited despite their unsafe condition (Robertson, Harris, Noftsinger, & Fischer, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While rural homelessness has received some attention in Australia (Grigg, Judd, Ryan, & Komiti, 2005), the United States (Fitchen, 1992;Lawrence, 1995; and England (Cloke, Milbourne, & Widdowfield, 2000, 2001, what little is known about rural homelessness in Canada is confined to small body of academic literature and a group of local reports which generally focus on discrete communities and sub-regions in disparate parts of the country. Some have a general overview of rural homelessness in a given region and others are focused on discrete populations such as Aboriginal people (Belanger & Weasel Head, 2013;Kauppi, Pallard, McGregor, & Seyler, 2015), northern remote areas (Christensen, 2012), and those with a serious mental illness (Forchuk et al, 2010).…”

Section: Background: Rural Homelessness In Canadamentioning

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Rural Homelessness in Western Canada: Lessons Learned from Diverse Communities

Schiff

Turner³

2016

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Until recently, there was little acknowledgement that homelessness existed in rural areas in Canada. Limited research and scarce data are available to understand the scope and dynamics of rural homelessness in Canada. As suggested in our previous work, there is a need for rural homelessness research to examine themes from a provincial perspective. The aim of this research was to contribute to expanding the knowledge base on the nature of rural homelessness at a provincial level in the Canadian province of Alberta. In order to understand the dynamics of homelessness in rural Alberta, we conducted interviews with service providers and other key stakeholders across Alberta. We examined homelessness dynamics and responses to rural homelessness in 20 rural communities across the province. Across all of the communities in the study, homelessness was reported however, the magnitude of the issue and its dynamics were distinct depending on the local contexts. We also identified several themes which serve as descriptors of rural homelessness issues. We note a number of recommendations emerging from this data which are aimed at building on the experiences, capacities, and strengths of rural communities.

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“…In Lawrence's (1995) study of rural homelessness in Iowa, he notes that the rural is commonly constructed as perhaps the`quintessential geographic site' of representations of the nature. This role, he argues, raises very significant barriers to the coupling of`rural' and`homelessness' at a sociocultural level.…”

Section: Conceptual Noncoupling Of Rurality and Homelessnessmentioning

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Homelessness and Rurality: ‘Out-of-Place’ in Purified Space?

2000

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In this paper we discuss the apparent failure to couple together the constructs of ‘rurality’ and ‘homelessness’, and propose a critical deconstruction of this noncoupling. Three principal lines of arguments are employed. First, there are a range of physical and material reasons why rural and urban spaces have varying qualities for hiding or revealing homeless people, and why the embodied experiences of homelessness have varying geographies. Second, there are a series of obstacles that exist within the practices, thoughts, and discourses of rural dwellers themselves, which lead them to deny that homelessness exists in their place. Third, normalised conceptualisations about rurality and homelessness often serve to separate the two concepts, and contribute to the assumption that homelessness is an urban phenomenon, which is rendered invisible in rural space. In short, homelessness may be conceptualised as being ‘out-of-place’ in the purified spaces of rurality, and the imaginary geographies of rurality and homelessness become transformed into everyday practices and actions relating to what people actually do in and about rural places. This critical deconstruction will be important for any attempts to recouple homelessness and rurality in the understandings and actions of policymakers.

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Rural homelessness: A geography without a geography

Cited by 36 publications

References 12 publications

Towards a Delivery System of Services for Rural Homeless Youth: A Literature Review and Case Study

Towards a Delivery System of Services for Rural Homeless Youth: A Literature Review and Case Study

Rural Homelessness in Western Canada: Lessons Learned from Diverse Communities

Homelessness and Rurality: ‘Out-of-Place’ in Purified Space?

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