In our territory, the homelessness can be still addressed to as a quite recent phenomenon. It does not mean though that it did not exist before the year 1989; the homeless people were "just" criminalized and whole problem was, in its own way, tabooed.
In 21st century, the field research among these ones is without any doubt one of the most difficult. Due to the rising number of poor and socially excluded individuals, it is necessary for the future researchers to know how to work smoothly in this type of terrain.
The following paper presents one of the ways how to proceed, based on the methodological guidance from the discipline of ethnology and field research experiences of the author.