Youth and adults who are experiencing homelessness connected quality of life to feelings of respect and acceptance. Those experiencing homelessness frequently do not feel like they have full citizenship within society. This is partly due to media and advertising portrayals that reproduce negative stereotypes of homelessness.

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Quality of life themes in Canadian adults and street youth who are homeless or hard-to-house: A multi-site focus group study was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 1-11 in 2012.