A vagrant is a person, almost always poor, without a home or regular work. Urban vagrants are commonly called "street people". Some towns have shelters for vagrants. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Homeless shelters are places for people to stay temporarily when they otherwise would have to sleep on the street, similar to emergency shelters. ...

Older terms for vagrants are tramp (or in the USA, bum). Such designations, however, tend to be associated with itinerant male rural vagrants of the past, rather than the modern pattern of the urban homeless of either sex. A tramp is an itinerant who travels from place to place, traditionally tramping, that is, walking. ... Bum can refer to several different things: In U.S. slang A homeless person, or more generally, a person of little moral worth In modern usage, the term bum is considered highly derogatory In hobo culture, the term bum referred specifically to a homeless person who does not work or... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ...

Vagrancy is a crime in some European countries, but most of these laws have been abandoned. The aim of this page is to act as a comparison between European countries in many different aspects, such as population, GDP, life expectancy, etc. ... This article is about law in society. ...

In legal terminology, a person that has income is not a vagrant, even if he/she is homeless.

See also

• More Info About Vagrancy (http://www.geocities.com/polarpugpuff/vagrant_youth.html)
• Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Vagracy (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9074623)