The number one cause is obviously something going sideways in someone's life that causes their housing to break down. In the case of youth, obviously something is going on in the family unit that doesn't work for either the family or the youth, or both, and therefore you have youth homelessness. For older adults, it could be a combination of a serious workplace injury, addictions or mental health, all of the.... The list is long.
I work from the perspective that, across all these systems I mentioned earlier, if you solve for what's getting in the way of someone thriving and succeeding, the outcomes will follow that. For example, if you have an employment or labour market strategy that targets to some degree people who are at risk of homelessness, your intervention cannot simply be, okay, let's get them a résumé, let's do X, or let's only do employment-related interventions.
If you have interventions that are more broad around housing, employment and education, they will hit what you want to see them do from an employment and labour market attachment perspective. It's being more holistic in terms of how it's not about the activities as defined by individual departmental mandates. It's about the outcomes. Hopefully, that answers your question.