Homelessness is living without a safe, stable and adequate home, and often without enough food and appropriate clothing. Clearly, living without the basic needs in life is inherently insecure. The most common image of a homeless person is an adult male, alcoholic, unwashed, occasionally talking to the clouds, who spends his nights in an urban alley sheltered by a cardboard box. While this stereotype may have roots in the original homeless populations -often transient labourers or post-war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress-homelessness now encompasses a broader demographic (Hulchanski, 2005; Koch & Hunt, 2004). Indeed, almost any large city in the developed world has a homeless population of men, women, youth, and children who are so impoverished that they are forced to sleep and live outside, stay in emergency shelters, camp illegally, take residence in motels and hotels, couch surf, or squat.1