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Homelessness is a global challenge.

The United Nations Human Settlements Program estimates that 1.1 billion people live in inadequate housing, and the best data available suggest that more than 100 million people have no housing at all.

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Urban Japan: Considering Homelessness, Characterizing Shelter and Contemplating Culture
Brian R. Sinclair
Over the past decade, the author has studied incidence of homelessness in several of Japan’s major cities, examining in particular occasions of homelessness and the provision of shelter to accommodate such populations. With an environmental design perspective, the researcher has explored, considered, and documented the primary types of temporary shelter designed, crafted and inhabited by Japan’s urban homeless. This paper...
Japanese Social Exclusion and Inclusion from a Housing Perspective
Yoshihiro Okamoto
This paper examines conditions of social exclusion and attempts at social inclusion in Japan from a housing perspective. Companies, households and the government have previously supported housing in Japan. However, corporate welfare was withdrawn following the globalization of the economy from the 1990s onwards, support from families and communities declined due to a reduction in household size, and governmental housing...
Forced Evictions and Human Rights
International human rights law establishes norms and principles touching on virtually all facets of life. This is reflected in the consistent reaffirmation by the international community of the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, whether civil, cultural, economic, political or social. The indispensable equality of all human rights, now firmly entrenched in the provisions of international human rights...
Peer Relationships: a Comparison of Homeless Youth in the Usa and South Korea
Sanna J. Thompson
Jihye Kim
Holly McManus
Patrick Flynn
Hyangcho Kim
Youth homelessness is a growing global concern as both developed and developing countries are experiencing an increase in this phenomena (Karabanow, & Rains, 1997). Previous research reveals that homelessness among youth has become disturbingly common in the United States, as well as in many other countries around the world (van Wormer, 2003). Studies of youth homelessness in Canada and Guatemala (Karabanow, 2003), the...