Survival sex can be a viable option for women managing homelessness. It ranged from staying with men for a night or a woman remaining in a sexual relationship to avoid becoming homeless again.
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Design principles, known as ‘crime prevention through environmental design’, are used all over the world to make cities safer. But some of these principles can be discriminatory and hostile.
It’s said Australia’s housing affordability problem is the result of new housing stock not keeping pace with population growth. But there is actually enough housing, so why can’t the poor afford it?
Are most homeless mentally ill? Is it inevitable that a society will have homeless people? A researcher digs into the real data on homelessness.
Social housing is important in the fight against homelessness. But we don’t actually know that it helps vulnerable people in any other areas of life.
Judge acknowledges attack on rough sleeper’s home, after he and his belongings were urinated on by a drunk passer-by.
People may not have a criminal record before they become homeless, but they likely will afterward due to laws intended to keep people with nowhere to go out of sight.
A lack of affordable housing makes homelessness especially pervasive and visible on the West Coast.
A decade after the launch of a national campaign against homelessness, the trends are all going the wrong way. A new annual report highlights what’s gone wrong and what must be done.
The problem with most public housing ‘renewal’ programs is that the residents have the least say in what happens to the places they call home. The evidence of housing research is also being ignored.
Preparations for next month’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast are pushing homeless people out of town, and out of the state. Sadly, that’s not unusual for events of this sort.
A decade after the launch of a national campaign to reduce homelessness, the latest figures show Australia is going backwards. Research points to problems in the public housing system as a key factor.
When homelessness charities work alongside Home Office immigration teams, it can put vulnerable people off seeking help.
Theresa May blames councils and developers for the housing crisis – but it’s a lack of leadership that’s the problem.
Experiencing homelessness increases the risk of criminal justice system involvement, and experiencing imprisonment increases the likelihood of homelessness.
A homeless man was found dead at Westminster station, on the doorstep of the Palace of Westminster.
Australian cities generally minimise negative attributes such as crime, segregation and violence, but developing positive attributes such as inclusivity appears more challenging.
The leader of Windsor council wants the streets cleared of homeless people ahead of the royal wedding – saying some people are choosing to sleep rough.
Rough sleeping by EU citizens in the UK can no longer be considered an abuse of free movement rights – but the homeless are still vulnerable.
The rising number of older Australians is exposing the shortage of housing options and services to meet their needs, putting them at increasing risk of homelessness.
Top contributors
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Reader in Social Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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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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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, University of South Australia
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Professor of Housing and Social Inclusion, Nottingham Trent University
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
