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标题：The Prevalence of Rough Sleeping and Sofa Surfing Amongst Young People in the UK
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作者：Anna Clarke
期刊名称：Social Inclusion
电子版ISSN：2183-2803
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：60-72
DOI：10.17645/si.v4i4.597
出版社：Cogitatio
摘要：Whilst data on statutory homelessness is well recorded in the UK, there is a lack of data on informal homelessness (such as ‘sofa surfing’) and rough sleeping, other than that which relies on partial information and street counts. This paper presents findings from a recent online survey of young people and helps to fill this gap. It found that rates of sofa surfing and rough sleeping among young people were much higher than previously thought. Twenty-six percent of young people (aged 16–25) had slept rough at some point in their life and 35 percent had ‘sofa surfed’ (stayed with friends or family on their floor or sofa because they had nowhere else to go). The paper explores the implications of this for how we conceptualise homelessness. It suggests that homelessness may often be neither cause nor consequence of wider forms of exclusion, but that we may need to explore further the factors that enable some people to move swiftly out of homelessness more easily than others.
关键词：boomerang generation; hidden homelessness; rough sleeping; sofa surfing; street homelessness; youth homelessness