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Winter is a really tough time for the homeless, but it is hard to help people who are invisible to society.
David Cameron has said the number of people sleeping rough has gone down under the coalition. That isn’t backed up by the evidence.
Housing tends to be seen as a human right, but here’s something to make you pause this winter: very few countries give homeless people any entitlement to emergency shelter. Scotland goes further and gives…
Almost half of homeless men in Toronto have suffered traumatic brain injuries in the past, according to a recent study. Researchers…
Social services minister Kevin Andrews recently announced an extension of funding for the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH) until June 30, 2015. This agreement funds 180 homelessness…
We are living through an age when increasingly harsh social policy aims to change the behaviour of those most dependent on support from the state. Funding is being cut to local authorities; this in turn…
London is about to experience a residential building boom the like of which the capital hasn’t experienced in decades. According to a report from New London Architecture there are more than 230 new high-rise…
My partner and I volunteered at a homeless shelter last month – the idea being to channel our spare time and seasonal spirit into something community-focused and productive. I’ve worked in many inner-city…
The number of Australians who were homeless on census night increased by 17% to 105,237 in the five years to August 2011. When adjusted for population growth, the increase the increase is still worryingly…
According to the best estimates at the time, almost 105,000 Australians were homeless on census night in August 2006. This promoted then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to make the ambitious commitment to accommodate…
In Australia the homeless population has become more diverse over the last 20 years, with more young people, women and families experiencing homelessness. This has led to a growth in the study of homelessness…
Allowing alcoholics to drink in housing project apartments has cut drinking by 35%. The idea is that when chronically homeless…
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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
