The last time an Australian government made housing the homeless a priority was 15 years ago. The Albanese government’s promised plan is a second chance to get it right by drawing on models that work.
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Ontario’s new policy on youth leaving care comes into effect April 1. While the policy provides welcomed support for youth, there are still gaps that need to be addressed.
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.
To really reduce homelessness we need to prevent those at risk from ever becoming homeless in the first place.
Even when the economy is strong, these young adults face economic hardship.
JobKeeper, the COVID boost to JobSeeker, and moratoriums on rent increases and evictions all ended this month. Only smarter policies will prevent homelessness, as a landmark Victorian report explains.
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.
Research shows meaningful and accessible activity like sports and arts may have significant impacts for homeless youth or youth at risk of homelessness.
For families living in poverty, making their 16 or 17 year old child homeless may be the only option to keeping them all afloat.
Young refugees are at high risk of being homeless in Australia. A five-year study has found re-establishing connections with their communities was the pathway out of homeless for most of them.
The brutal killing of a young homeless woman has led to calls for more crisis accommodation. This is a short-term fix. We have to move beyond crisis management to sustained housing for people at risk.
In 2008, Australia had a national homelessness strategy, plus a ten-point roadmap to reduce youth homelessness. Why has it fallen so far short of its goals, and what still needs to be done?
Problems such as mental illness and drug addiction are confined to a minority of homeless people – and it’s preventing others from getting help.
Roughly 700,000 students ages 13 to 17 have experienced homelessness in the last year. An education researcher says the obstacles that these students face can threaten their college dreams.
Parental separation substantially raises the risk of homelessness by the age of 30 for girls and boys, but only boys are affected by a break-up after the age of 12.
Homeless children charged in NSW with a criminal offence who are unable to meet bail conditions are being kept in custody. It’s due, in part, to a well-meant but flawed section of the Bail Act.
I conducted interviews with 26 young women in alcohol and drug treatment services in Victoria. More than half of them disclosed a history of sexual abuse and 20 spoke about cutting themselves.
Reliable data about the homeless population is vital when developing policy, allocating funding and developing services for vulnerable people. But first the census needs to find them.
A new report’s findings provide a strong economic rationale for investing in early intervention to stem the flow of young people into homelessness.
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Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Kath McFarlane Consulting & Adjunct Associate Professor, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer – Youth Work and International Development, Australian Catholic University
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Professor in Finance, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, University of Tasmania
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Post doctoral research fellow, Launch Housing and Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Education and Counseling, Villanova University
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Senior Lecturer, Youth Work & Youth Studies, Social Equity Research Centre, RMIT University
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Assisstant Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina
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Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology, Cardiff University
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Senior Researcher, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, York University, Canada
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Professor in Social Economics and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
