Les usagers des services d’aide aux sans-domicile en 2001 et 2012 : des exclus du logement et de l’emploi ?

Drawing on data from the INED?INSEE 2001 and 2012 homelessness surveys, this article establishes a typology of the housing and employment trajectories of French-speaking users of homelessness support services. Most respondents are excluded from both the housing and employment markets. Some are actively looking for a job and a place to live, while others, such as migrants without work permits, appear trapped in limbo. Working but homeless respondents correspond to a particular profile: that of poor workers living in institutional accommodation. Our analysis of changes between 2001 and 2012 reveals the development of a three-tier accommodation system that partly overlaps with that of employment status: an emergency sector that takes in unemployed migrants and single men; a stable housing sector for people with little or no short-term prospect of rejoining the labour market but who belong to categories targeted by housing policies (people with disabilities, retirees, women); and a ?social integration? hostel sector that provides accommodation, generally on a temporary basis, for people in work or actively seeking employment.