“…Despite evidence linking homelessness to broader social determinants of health (Raphael, 2008), policy makers often attribute the causes of homelessness to individual factors and interventions tend to focus narrowly on individuals who display ''high risk'' characteristics (Shinn, 2007;Wright, Rubin, & Devine, 1998). Several categories of risk factors have been associated with vulnerability to repeated homelessness, including criminal justice contact, mental illness, substance dependence, ethnicity, and social networks (Caton et al, 2000(Caton et al, , 2005McBride, Calsyn, Morse, Klinkenberg, & Allen, 1998;North, Pollio, Smith, & Spitznagel, 1998;Sosin & Bruni, 1997). These factors are themselves a function of poor access to the social determinants of health (Raphael, 2008), illustrating an interaction that cannot be fully understood by studying individual or structural variables independently.…”