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Taking the case of Downtown Eastside (DTES), Vancouver, Canada, this paper explains the social impact of the ‘housing first’ approach as a homeless reduction policy in an urban underclass area from the perspective of social inclusion/exclusion. Since the 2000s, the provincial and city governments have executed a ‘housing first’ policy in DTES, an area which has had problems of poverty, drug use and mental illness for a long time. With this policy, support organizations, which were originally working in the area, operated emergency shelters and housing for the homeless. This increased the number of sheltered homeless and improved their access to sufficient degrees of protection and support, but it has also increased the number of socially vulnerable people in DTES, who have come to settle in the area as other areas cannot provide enough support to them.
