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Homeless people are at higher risk of various health problems.
Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
The government says proposed move-on orders will tackle disorder. Critics argue they risk punishing homelessness while doing little to address its causes.
Many cities are considering involuntary substance use treatment as a solution to drug use among the homeless. But research doesn’t support this strategy.
The $10 billion housing future fund will build 30,000 new social and affordable homes. While the scheme is welcome, there is plenty of room for improvement.
Building a stronger Detroit means stabilizing housing, using vacant land to benefit the public and investing in social infrastructure.
One person said it’s crucial people who’ve experienced homelessness are central to service design and policy, and ‘it’s not coming from people in really nice suits’.
People in police custody are often denied essential medication or face dangerous delays in care. New research shows current systems are failing—and what must change.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.
Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.
The proposed use of the notwithstanding clause to clear homeless encampments would add unhoused people to a growing list of those whose human rights have been recently curbed by the clause.
Canada and other countries have adopted a Housing First approach to addressing homelessness. To be effective, the approach must be accompanied by policies that tackle broader economic and housing issues.
Integrating affordable housing with accessible health and social services is a proven, highly cost-effective way to tackle homelessness and vastly improve people’s lives.
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.
It doesn’t matter how many meals a provider serves. It matters how many people overcome homelessness.
Many unhoused people have pets, however, accessing health care for themselves and their pets can be a challenge. ‘One Health’ clinics can provide vital health care to unhoused people and their pets.
We know how to reduce homelessness and uphold our responsibilities to those seeking asylum and protection. Now all we need is the political will.
Encampment sweeps in Edmonton are a brutal attack on both human and treaty rights, as well as a continuation of the violent removal of Indigenous Peoples from their land.
Being homeless compounds the risk factors that make people more vulnerable to hate-motivated attacks.
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Reader in Social Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Honorary Fellow in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology