Editorial

"Editorial." , 27(1), pp. 1–2

Acknowledgements

Many people made this study possible. The editors acknowledge their funders, the National DSD, the Gauteng DSD, the HSRC and the SDC, and commend them for wanting to develop an evidence base for assisting the homeless. Too often, those responsible for improving the lives of street people act without evidence or adequate understanding of the problem. The editors also warmly thank the street people and former street people, and the many service providers, non-governmental organisations and shelter staff, whose generous sharing of their time and their stories of their lives and work made this study possible. The editors are grateful to Mark Orkin and Mike de Klerk, respectively Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director at the time of the study, for recognising the importance of homelessness as a social science research question. The editors also thank Annemarie Booyens for formatting the questionnaire, Anneke Jordaan and Monica Peret for helping to analyse the data, the late Jennifer van Rensburg for conducting telephone interviews, and our fieldworkers for dedicated work under difficult conditions.

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Catherine Cross

Guest Editor

John R. Seager

Guest Editor