Reflexivity
The lead author of this paper and principal investigator on this study has over a decade of experience working as a nurse practitioner at Covenant House Toronto—one of the three community partners collaborating on this study. She also drew on her social location as a mixed race (South Asian-European) woman and immigrant with a history of economic precarity, along with her experience conducting two other studies with this population, to help reflect more deeply on the complex and intersecting nature of socioeconomic inclusion.Several authors on this paper have clinical and volunteer experience working with people experiencing homelessness. Additionally, all of the authors involved in qualitative data generation and analysis were able to identify with the stories of the 12 research participants by virtue of their age and life stage, and/or because of their own experiences of homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges, childhood abuse, and sexual orientation. We believe this “insider-outsider” status allowed us to reach a deeper level of analysis and interpretation, and to theorize the data and offer insights beyond superficial understandings of barriers and facilitators to socioeconomic inclusion (Eakin & Gladstone, 