The Emergency Service Clients

Several housing risk clients identified in Chapter 3 are profiled here in detail regarding their housing circumstances and how they have been coping with these problems. Individuals are described for whom disloaction was brief; for whom homelessness was long term, repeated or habitual; or who have never been without a home. Most persons in the latter category are subsisting in this state at substantial personal risk. The unique coping abilities of each type are highlighted.