The largest group of homeless women is between the ages of 25 and 34, and family violence is most often the cause. Their stories testify to the dangers and stresses of not having a place to call home.
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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.
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.
Media coverage often uses the label 'homeless' in ways that link the plight of tens of thousands of Australians to criminality. But a homeless person is much more likely to be vulnerable than violent.
Whether it's through begging or building shelters, homeless people are trying to make their lives better.
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?
Homelessness in the UK has been rising for a decade – short term funding may have offered respite, but it won't lead to long term solutions.
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Shambolic rollout of new recording system for people at risk of homelessness means statistics shouldn't be trusted.
Life on the street is no place to recover from a stay in hospital, but that's what happens to many people who are homeless. But there's a proven model to provide care that also cuts healthcare costs.
Surveillance often results in people who are homeless being the target of enforcement measures. But a new study in Cairns shows surveillance can also be used to achieve more positive social outcomes.
With such an enormous challenge, where would it make sense to start? We looked into our archives for stories on what it would take to eradicate homelessness in the US today.
Problems such as mental illness and drug addiction are confined to a minority of homeless people – and it's preventing others from getting help.
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.
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.
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Reader in Social Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow in Criminology, University of Melbourne
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Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne
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General Manager, Advocacy, Cancer Council Queensland
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Professor, School of Law, The University of South Australia; Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School, University of South Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Human Geographer, Deakin University
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Social Work & Social Policy, University of South Australia
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Professor of Housing and Social Research, De Montfort University
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Lecturer, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia
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Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
