'Single homelessness' is used as a shorthand term to cover all homeless households without responsibility for dependent children - childless couples as well as single people are included.

There is no single, universally accepted definition of homelessness. The overview report on this website has a discussion of different definitions and experiences of homelessness.

For further reading on the definitions and experiences of homelessness as well as research on causes and predictors, try searching the on-line bibliographic database using the keywords 'overview', 'definitions', 'experiences', 'causes', or 'predictors'.