Making Homes in Un-Homelike Places among Young People in Vancouver: Implications for Homelessness Prevention
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identifier citation: Youth 4 (2): 885-904 (2024)
creator: Manson, Daniel
creator: Fast, Danya
issued: 2024-07-03T20:15:28Z
issued: 2024-06-09
description: This article explores the experiences of young people navigating an evolving system of housing and homelessness services in Vancouver, Canada. Despite recent shifts toward Housing First policies and calls for prevention-oriented initiatives, many young people continue to rely on temporary emergency accommodations. Amid a surge in youth homelessness and unstable housing in Vancouver, our study examines young people’s “homing” strategies across time and place and temporary and more permanent living environments. We draw from an ongoing ethnographic study that began in 2021 and has involved over 70 interviews and 100 h of fieldwork with 54 young people aged 19 to 29. Our findings emphasize that feeling at home extends beyond having a roof over one’s head for an extended period of time. A focus on homing strategies—that is, the day-to-day practices, routines, and forms of sociality that generate a sense of stability and care even in un-homelike places—highlights how young people can be better supported in making themselves at home in the places where they live, potentially preventing returns to street-based homelessness. This study contributes insights to youth homelessness prevention policies, urging a strengths-based approach that aligns with young people’s needs, priorities, and desires for homemaking.
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note: Citation: Manson, D.; Fast, D. MakingHomes in Un-Homelike Places amongYoung People in Vancouver:Implications for HomelessnessPrevention. Youth 2024, 4, 885–904.https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4020057Academic Editors: Jacqueline Sohn,Rebecca Stroud and JacquelineKennellyReceived: 22 March 2024Revised: 21 May 2024Accepted: 5 June 2024Published: 9 June 2024Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ArticleMaking Homes in Un-Homelike Places among Young People inVancouver: Implications for Homelessness PreventionDaniel Manson 1,2,* and Danya Fast 1,21 Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada;danya.fast@bccsu.ubc.ca2 British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada* Correspondence: daniel.manson@bccsu.ubc.caAbstract: This article explores the experiences of young people navigating an evolving system ofhousing and homelessness services in Vancouver, Canada. Despite recent shifts toward HousingFirst policies and calls for prevention-oriented initiatives, many young people continue to rely ontemporary emergency accommodations. Amid a surge in youth homelessness and unstable housingin Vancouver, our study examines young people’s “homing” strategies across time and place andtemporary and more permanent living environments. We draw from an ongoing ethnographic studythat began in 2021 and has involved over 70 interviews and 100 h of fieldwork with 54 young peopleaged 19 to 29. Our findings emphasize that feeling at home extends beyond having a roof over one’shead for an extended period of time. A focus on homing strategies—that is, the day-to-day practices,routines, and forms of sociality that generate a sense of stability and care even in un-homelikeplaces—highlights how young people can be better supported in makin…
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language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/youth4020057
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: homing
subject: home
subject: homelessness
subject: young people who use drugs
subject: prevention
subject: temporary housing
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88561