The Role of Debt in the Maintenance of Homelessness

Bibliographic Data

ID22084809
AuthorsNick Maguire (0000-0003-4295-8068, University of Southampton, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume9
Pages810064-810064
Publication date2022-01-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2021.810064
PMID35155356
OpenAlexW4210289508
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

Debt is highly prevalent within the homeless population. This narrative review makes use of a varied literature to explore the relationship between debt and homelessness, focussing particularly on organisational (systemic) and individual factors and formulating the relationship between the two. A number of forms of debt and the causes of that debt are explored, in terms of individual factors such as motivation and organisational factors such as inflexible rent protocols. These factors are considered within the context of the cash economy operated by people who are homeless, together with the survival behaviours that drive such a way of operating. Conclusions are drawn about the nature of interventions and how individual psychological approaches to motivation need to be taken into account

Cash · Debt · Economics · Geography · Narrative · Population · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Sociology · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance