‘Forced to Become a Community’: Encampment Residents’ Perspectives on Systemic Failures, Precarity, and Constrained Choice

While living in an encampment is a last resort, it is often a better option than the streets or shelters for people experiencing homelessness. 

This study explores the structural and systemic failures that contribute to a rise in homeless encampments. It examines how these failures create inadequate services that drive people to live in encampments, as well as how these factors connect to health care and the human right to housing.