Our governments now have all the evidence they need to end homelessness. The new National Housing and Homelessness Plan is an opportunity to put it into practice.
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In any given town, community and neighbourhood there will be homeless children, sometimes as young as 10, who are surviving without the effective care and protection of parents or guardians.
More people than expected needed help, and the states have found stable housing for less than a third of rough sleepers who were put up in hotels. A hands-off federal government simply isn’t helping.
When the moratorium on evictions ends, even more Australians will face housing insecurity and homelessness. Beyond the moral and health cases, there’s a powerful financial reason to end homelessness.
Pandemic is once in a generation opportunity to help homeless people stay off the streets for good – we must not waste this.
Top contributors
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Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Industry/Professional Fellow, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, University of Tasmania
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PhD Candidate in the School of Law, Policing and Forensics, University of Staffordshire
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW