“It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs

People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting structural vulnerabilities (e.g., drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and prejudicial or illegal evictions are common. In Vancouver, Canada, evictions have proliferated in the Downtown Eastside, a...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2023-05, Vol.324, p.115886-115886, Article 115886
Main Authors: Fleming, Taylor, Collins, Alexandra B., Boyd, Jade, Knight, Kelly R., McNeil, Ryan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Drug use
Evictions
Homelessness
Housing
Humans
Poverty
Qualitative Research
Residence Characteristics
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
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Summary:People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting structural vulnerabilities (e.g., drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and prejudicial or illegal evictions are common. In Vancouver, Canada, evictions have proliferated in the Downtown Eastside, a historically low-income neighbourhood with high rates of drug use and housing instability, resulting in many PWUD being evicted into homelessness. This study characterizes housing trajectories of recently-evicted PWUD through the lens of the institutional circuit of homelessness, and explores how wider contexts of structural vulnerability shape experiences within this. Qualitative interviews were conducted with PWUD recently evicted in the Downtown Eastside (
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115886