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Articles on overcrowding
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The sheer scale of the Hindu festival makes it a disaster waiting to happen. From new underwater drones to AI surveillance, here’s what’s being done to avoid deadly crushes.
All tourists want a good holiday, and no matter how uncomfortable overcrowding might be, thousands of people going to the same place at the same time feels less risky than being on your own.
Fire is a social equality issue. Amid fresh concerns over rogue landlords and dangerous overcrowding, why have calls for change gone unheeded for so long?
Overcrowding is associated with many other mental and physical health concerns.
The tragedy this year shares similarities with the 1943 Bethnal Green disaster in London.
With projections that 68% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050, it’s important we tackle loneliness now before it becomes epidemic.
Climate change is a key risk for remote Indigenous communities in Australia. How can housing in remote and regional areas be improved to withstand extreme weather conditions for these communities?
The COVID-19 crisis in Wilcannia demonstrates how entrenched neglect has led to a community devastated by the global pandemic.
A new analysis shows how government policy led to thousands more overcrowded households in the years ahead of the pandemic.
The second wave of COVID-19 in New South Wales highlights concerns for the unvaccinated and those with multiple risk factors - particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Nurse practitioners can be the missing link between homeless children, housing services and schools, our study shows.
The hotspots in Melbourne align with areas of significant housing and financial stress.
With no place to wash hands and nowhere to physically isolate, many poor Indonesians are incredibly vulnerable as COVID-19 sweeps through the global south.
The size of our housing is linked to our physical and mental health.
Improving the housing conditions of the most marginalised people among us is an important biosecurity measure for the whole community.
Overcrowding can have severe negative consequences for the education and safety of learners.
There are now more legally innocent people in jail in Victoria than there were convicted prisoners in 2005.
Recent deaths and climate breakdown are leaving more and more bodies on Everest. A new way forward is needed to recover the mortal remains of climbers with dignity and respect.
Homelessness in Australia is increasingly concentrated in the capital cities, where nearly two in every three people without a home are now found. That’s the finding of a study of the data since 2001.
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor (Housing Policy), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Associate Professor & Associate Investigator ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Department of Health and Physical Education, Mount Royal University
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of History, Leeds Beckett University
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Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
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Sharon Bessell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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CEO of Nganampa Health Council, Indigenous Knowledge
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Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance, UCL
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African Population and Health Research Center
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PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Architecture, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, Education and Youth Empowerment, African Population and Health Research Center