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The stories people tell about welfare rarely match up with the stories told by people actually receiving aid.
Australia has managed to house the homeless in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic. We now have an opportunity to be thinking about longer-term solutions.
Without sufficient safe shelter space and universal testing, cities are forcing homeless people into encampments, limiting their ability to stay safe and violating international human rights laws.
The scheme will encourage people who can’t afford to buy homes or are homeless to believe the government has forgotten them.
For economically strapped Americans, the financial fallout from the epidemic may be permanently embedded in their digital profiles, making it harder for them to regain their economic footing.
Of 2,646 hectares of public land being prepared for sale in Victoria, 24 sites are suitable for building high-quality public housing in places of high need. Why isn’t the land being used for this?
When two or more epidemics co-exist and compound one another to worsen health, they are said to be syndemic. COVID-19 is feeding on other crises and diseases.
A loose patchwork of measures and systems has left millions at risk of slipping through the cracks as the pandemic’s economic downturn hits.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, missteps in transitioning the incarcerated back to their communities places this already vulnerable populace at greater risk of getting and transmitting the virus.
Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
The imperative to keep a roof over our head keeps us wedded to economic growth. If we want to halt climate change, we need another way
Proving effective in Canada, harm-reducing MAPs should be introduced here to help this vulnerable group access alcohol and stay safe during lockdown.
Now is the time for a two-pronged strategy to ensure everyone has a home: a spot-purchasing program to find homes for people now in emergency accommodation, followed by social housing construction.
Police officers are integral front-line workers during this extraordinary crisis. They should be empowered to act as protectors of the vulnerable, not as persecutors of homeless people.
Current measures prohibiting the eviction of tenants and helping them through the financial crisis won’t last forever. A 40-year-old voucher program might be a longer term solution.
The system isn’t working to prevent young Australians becoming homeless and to house them when they need it. New research finds a shift to proven community-based approaches can end decades of failure.
Even as Americans are all told to remain at home, millions are now unemployed and must scramble to figure out how to pay for that home.
Nonprofits and concerned residents are teaming up with the local government to solve a daunting problem in a city with the nation’s highest per-capita rate of homelessnesss.
Improving the housing conditions of the most marginalised people among us is an important biosecurity measure for the whole community.
Top contributors
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Reader in Social Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Housing and Social Inclusion, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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Researcher, Aging In the Right Place | M.A. student, Gerontology, Simon Fraser University
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, University of Memphis