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About one in three homeless people has a significant mental illness. Providing housing for them has proved to be a boost not only to them and their communities, but also to budgets. Here’s why.
Former government minister vying to be the first elected mayor of Manchester speaks to Philip Brown.
The symptoms are clear, but the cure will remain elusive until we recognise the many sources of the problem.
In contrast to perceptions of other homeless people sleeping rough, Darwin’s “long-grassers” are applying a long cultural tradition to deal with the situation in which they find themselves.
Archaic vagrancy acts and Public Spaces Protection Laws turn washing, sleeping and begging into punishable offences.
Evidence increasingly shows the effectiveness of controversial efforts, like northeastern Brazil’s Attitude Programme, to feed and house at-risk drug users.
Some say homelessness creates squalor in our cities. But Hosier Lane — the most Instagrammed spot in Melbourne — thrives partly due to homeless street artists.
Bans are ineffective when used against populations that have nowhere else to go. Importantly, research shows that punitive approaches to the homeless cost more than supported housing strategies.
In 1966, the BBC drama Cathy Come Home radically changed the way society thinks about homelessness. So how would Cathy fare today?
A fundraising initiative in Scotland has made headlines, but good intentions are not enough when it comes to helping vulnerable people.
Homeless children charged in NSW with a criminal offence who are unable to meet bail conditions are being kept in custody. It’s due, in part, to a well-meant but flawed section of the Bail Act.
Not only is it cheaper to provide permanent supportive housing to the homeless, but the improvement to their lives is immeasurable.
Nottingham City Council are in trouble over a series of anti-begging posters – it’s important to know if their claims stack up.
New psychoactive substances, same problematic users.
The lack of service integration and the paucity of welfare services make poor people’s task of caring for their familes much harder. A small monthly cash transfer can’t solve all their challenges.
Businesses have traded on graffiti and the air of edginess that draws visitors to Melbourne’s laneways. But they draw the line at sharing space with the homeless, whose right to the city is denied.
Reliable data about the homeless population is vital when developing policy, allocating funding and developing services for vulnerable people. But first the census needs to find them.
A decent national housing policy is not just about the million or so Australians who are in housing need, marginal housing or homeless. In reality, all the housing sectors are connected.
Many praise the internet as a democratizing force. But with online spaces replacing physical public squares as places for debate, what do we risk losing?
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
