Moves by the Government and those on the ground such as social service agencies and volunteers to address the complex issues faced by Singaporeans who are homeless have expanded to include different approaches over the past few years.

They are moving away from traditional approaches of seeing the solution as simply putting a roof over someone's head.

However, more can be done to tackle the fact that homelessness is neither solely an individual nor a housing problem.

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Dr Harry Tan is a research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. Francesca Lee and Jenin Teo are research assistants at the same institute.

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