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Broadly understood as the processes through which issues assume qualities that locate them within or beyond the remit of medicine, de\/medicalisation continues to inform theoretical innovation and empirical research. The emergence of law clinics for people experiencing housing instability and homelessness offers a case study of how de\/medicalisation can enrich the analysis of problems at the interstices of health and social care. Law clinics, often co-located or attached to primary and tertiary health care settings, aim to augment housing, health, wellness and social care offerings. Yet, this proximity \u2013 conceptual and spatial \u2013 may inadvertently reify understandings of homelessness as an individual pathology while aiming to offer pragmatic support to people who are otherwise excluded from core institutions in society. 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