Addressing opioid use disorder among youth experiencing homelessness

Research to end homelessness and prevent or intervene in drug use and mental health problems among youth has lagged that of adults.

Next time you’re on the street, notice the youth alone with a backpack and a dog, looking with longing in the window of a fast-food restaurant but not buying anything to eat. Or sleeping in the library. Or lingering at a bus stop but never boarding a bus. That young person might be experiencing homelessness, a condition that is rising among youth in our society. Homelessness among youth is not rare.

In this project, the research team will train the therapists and youth advocates at Star House to implement evidence-based interventions, which include a motivational and substance use/mental health intervention and an advocacy intervention focused on linkage to community and social supports.

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Homelessness is a complex socioeconomic issue that demands more than providing shelter

Professor Letlhokwa George Mpedi is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg.

The 2022 Census showed that there were 55,719 homeless people in South Africa at the time of counting. If we do not tackle the scourge of homelessness, our freedom is called into question.

In August, a fire ripped through a multi-storey building in the heart of Johannesburg. As the city grappled with the sheer devastation and the harrowing images, it emerged that the Albert Street building was mainly occupied by the homeless. This provided some insight into the crisis of homelessness in the city.

Professor Letlhokwa George Mpedi is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg.

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AMA’s submission to National Housing and Homelessness Plan

The AMA is pushing for the federal government’s upcoming National Housing and Homelessness Plan to clearly reflect the strong link between housing and health.

In a submission to the Department of Social Services, the AMA argues the 10-year plan should consider broader social and community needs, and focus on equity and access issues of appropriate housing for communities with diverse needs.

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Gregory Smith survived homelessness, addiction and abuse. Now he has an OAM

Gregory Smith knows a thing or two about the power of labels. At 17, he was diagnosed as sociopathic and spent the next 30 years living up to that description. Violent, drug-addicted and itinerant, he channelled childhood trauma into a one-man war against society.

During the past 20 years, however, he has accumulated other labels. Doctor. Lecturer. Author. OAM. It’s an astonishing transformation that he struggles, at times, to comprehend. “My life has changed so much,” he said when Australian Story filmed with him recently in Orange, in Central West NSW.

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Bold plan to eliminate housing crisis and homelessness within a decade

Upcoming ‘Sleep Under the Stars’ event to raise awareness for youth homelessness.

The nation’s peak body tackling homelessness has released an ambitious list of ways they claim would halve homelessness in five years, and fix the problem within a decade. Homelessness Australia wants to see 50,000 social and affordable homes built per year, an increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance, and government services to be targeted towards the prevention, rather than symptoms, of homelessness.

Homelessness Australia’s submission to the National Housing and Homelessness Plan demands a commitment to end homelessness in a decade.

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Australia’s high housing costs is leading to increasing poverty

High housing costs are contributing to Australia’s poverty rate. AHURI’s new report outlines a few solutions to alleviate Australia’s poverty rate.

The federal government is planning to increase social housing supply. One of the proposed solutions is to reform residential tenancy laws. A new report from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), Poverty and Australian Housing, has put the spotlight on a few solutions that could alleviate the ill effects of poverty brought on by high housing costs.

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From right to buy to housing crisis: how home ownership killed Britain’s property dream

Margaret Thatcher’s ‘property-owning democracy’ project drove a mass sell-off of social housing and the growth of private ownership. Now, after more than 40 years of soaring prices and growing inequality, is it time to change course?

Property: natural and imprescriptible human right, foundation of freedom, engine of wealth, maker of peace and law. The concept that runs through western democracy like steel through reinforced concrete, which wrote the code for the formation of the United States and underwrote the expansion of great cities, which has been embraced by developing economies as the means to prosperity and private fulfilment, and without which neither industrial nor post-industrial society, nor uncountable cultural, social and economic benefits that follow, would exist.

A good craved by individuals that converts personal effort into permanent achievement. A foundation for a good home, for the shelter and setting of your life and the repository of your dreams. Property, which also has a way of making the world go mad.

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Signs and portraits humanize homelessness, inspire change

Signs are on display from the “HOME? Humanizing the Homeless: Portraits and Signs” exhibit. “Shipwrecked”, “Food, please help”, and “Spare change, please” were just some of the signs gallery patrons read in an SMU art exhibit last week that captured the stories of hundreds of homeless individuals all over the world.

SMU and Dallas community members also participated in a dinner last Wednesday and discussed Meadows’ latest exhibition, aimed at destigmatizing homelessness. “Art does have the power to get people to shift,” said exhibit artist and SMU advertising professor Willie Baronet.

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Housing now the highest priority for Australians

A woman stands at a light rail station in Sydney

Half of Australians now consider housing our biggest national priority, according to the latest report from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney Business School.

Conducted in September, the latest biannual Transport Opinion Survey of 1029 Australians revealed 51 percent chose housing as one of the two highest priorities in Australia today – a rapid jump from 42 percent in March, and the highest level for housing since the first survey was conducted in 2010.

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