Evolución en los procesos e itinerarios de las personas sin hogar en España: ¿Retorno al pasado?

This paper uses 2005 and 2012 "Survey on homeless person conducted by the National Statistics Institute (INE) "to empirically investigate the relevance of social exclusion in Spain among this population, researching the childhood and the loos of housing. Gaining a better understanding on will be a particular relevance to contribute in social policy evaluation. The results point out an increasing of the risks of homelessness in Spain and the most important changes experienced between 2005 and 2012. Three ideal types of itinerates has been found: new poverty, social exclusion and integrated poverty. Finally, we have analysed how each one of these groups presents a specific morphology of vulnerability among demographic composition, structural, relationship and institutional factors. During this period, the new poverty as increasingly important mechanism and the impact of the structural problems in different itinerates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]