Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home in the 1960s. It’s time to consider the downsides of sizing up.
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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.
On Q&A, social researcher and author Rebecca Huntley said “about 30%” of homeless people have a job. Is that right?
Hundreds of squatters were living in a vacant police station in São Paulo when fire broke out on May 1, killing up to four people. The residents were part of Brazil’s nationwide homeless movement.
When the city centre was revitalised in the 1990s, homeless people were pushed out. With homelessness rising today, it’s important to recognise the links between urban development and displacement.
There is a long, dishonourable history of detrimental policy going back to the 15th century.
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.
New Zealand’s coalition government plans to transition to a low-emissions economy while also addressing major urban issues such as unaffordable housing, inequality and poverty.
Homeless people are far more likely to suffer sleep deprivation with all its associated problems.
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.
Less than 15% of the most disadvantaged people in Australia exit poverty from one year to the next. We need to design policy to tackle this.
A homeless man was found dead at Westminster station, on the doorstep of the Palace of Westminster.
Catastrophic increases in opioid overdose deaths across Canada require a broad response – tackling housing, food and income insecurity as well as the contaminated drug supply.
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.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
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.
Christmas can be a particularly hard time of year, and dogs are a vital support for many of the most vulnerable in our society.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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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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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Housing and Social Inclusion, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, University of Tasmania
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Fellow in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic, University of Memphis
