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.
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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.
The pilot project opening in Sydney will use the best available evidence to keep vulnerable people cool on the hottest of days.
If passed, B.C.’s Bill 45 will trample over the constitutional rights of unhoused people by ignoring shelter barriers, Indigenous rights and the need for daytime shelter
To be homeless is a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. And that’s un-American, says a philosopher.
It takes time to make more affordable long-term housing options available. So what can be done in the meantime? We can start by prioritising well-designed, supportive transitional housing.
Often those most impacted by climate change are those least able to engage with climate discourse. Universities have a responsibility to engage with these communities.
A professor of counseling who researches homelessness offers tips to help parents gets the school support and accommodations for their children.
Researchers found that most homeless people spent the money they received on rent, food and other living costs.
To address chronic homelessness, the federal government needs to include funding for longer-term supportive housing in its National Housing Strategy.
The challenging realities surrounding end-of-life care are especially difficult for older people experiencing homelessness, who have more barriers to accessing hospice care.
Local councils lack the means to tackle homelessness, but are often closest to the people at risk. A national plan should recognise and resource the role councils can play in preventing homelessness.
People’s physical and mental health suffers – all while trying to hold down a job or getting their kids to school.
While all groups experienced increased housing vulnerability after the pandemic hit, only people of Asian descent continued to see their situations worsen in 2021 as the US spent trillions trying to soften the impact.
Evidence suggests that Ontario neither had a shortage of pre-authorized housing starts to accommodate its growing population, nor did it have a shortage of designated land to build such homes.
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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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 Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer, RMIT University
