New research shows discrimination against Aboriginal Victorians in the private rental housing market is systemic, but there are solutions.
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Climate change is a key risk for remote Indigenous communities in Australia. How can housing in remote and regional areas be improved to withstand extreme weather conditions for these communities?
When two or more epidemics co-exist and compound one another to worsen health, they are said to be syndemic. COVID-19 is feeding on other crises and diseases.
Despite chronic housing need and persistent health and infrastructural inequities, northern communities are turning to the land and each other to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Reducing crowding and repairing social housing can decrease the risk of COVID-19 in remote Indigenous communities. It will bring other long-term benefits, too.
Indigenous children are admitted to out-of-home care at 11 times the rate for non-Indigenous children. The lack of safe housing for mothers fleeing family violence is a key factor.
Centralised policies are not meeting the needs of remote Indigenous settlements. Increasing their decision-making input and the role of local industry can overcome the challenges of building remotely.
Another affordable housing pact between the Commonwealth, states and territories came into effect this month. But with no new funding, the agreement may be different from predecessors in name only.
The standards we use today were designed to help avoid the overcrowded housing that blighted cities in the past. But severe overcrowding is again on the rise, so what needs to be done?
To deliver better housing for health, we must go back to what we know works, to the proven evidence-based solutions for design, construction, delivery and maintenance.
Top contributors
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Scientia Associate Professor, School of Law, Society & Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Professor – Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Nina Lansbury is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Sydney
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Assistant professor, Université Laval
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Professor, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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ARC DECRA Fellow & Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy, Memorial University of Newfoundland
