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RESEARCH: Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse.

Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these…

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Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle

3 Significant Barriers to Affordable Housing Production – Conduit Street

This article is part of MACo’s Policy Deep Dive series, where expert policy analysts explore and explain the top county…

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3 Significant Barriers to Affordable Housing Production – Conduit Street

Brisbane planning laws keeping poor out of city’s most desirable suburbs, research suggests

Brisbane city council’s traditional building character overlay prohibits demolition of any dwelling built before 1947 in a bid to ‘maintain…

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Brisbane planning laws keeping poor out of city’s most desirable suburbs, research suggests

Older Adults’ Pathways Into – and Out of – Housing Insecurity and Homelessness

Adults 65 and older are the fastest-growing age group of people who experience homelessness, and those 50 and over who…

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Senior adult man sits alone at old wooden bench in park looking forward, at Hiroshima Peace Memorial park, Japan.

Calls for solutions from National Housing Conference as delegates debate the housing crisis

More than 1,300 representatives will attend a three-day National Housing Conference in Brisbane starting on Tuesday, to address difficulties and…

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‘Batting above average’: mayor praises council’s efforts to support community

The local housing crisis is among the key issues addressed in a Noosa Council report that details its achievements, initiatives…

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Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart with acting CEO Larry Sengstock
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Wiping debt ‘won’t fix’ Tasmanian housing shortage

Housing and welfare groups yesterday warned that senator Jacqui Lambie’s push for Canberra to ­forgive Tasmania’s $157 million public housing…

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Economy needs a boost, without an expensive hangover

Number one on the Treasurer’s list should be to emulate the 2008 Social Housing Initiative, one of the most effective…

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‘I’m sleeping in my car’: These are the victims of Hobart’s housing affordability crisis

A domestic violence survivor. A cancer patient. A mother-of-two. SBS News speaks to those struggling with housing and homelessness in…

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Australia’s largest homelessness centre offers new approach

Victorians experiencing homelessness will have access to accommodation, health services, a tech hub, a gym and financial counselling with the…

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How the 2019 state and territory budgets stack up on housing, affordability and infrastructure

Budget season has come and gone and, with it, billions have been allocated to spend on housing and housing policies…

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Anglicare’s Good Grub Club food van tackles youth homelessness

A colourful food van, manned by at-risk teenagers, rolling around southeast Queensland is shining a light on the raw reality…

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Community housing providers can grow build-to-rent sector

Subsidising community housing providers (CHPs) and their projects rather than providing tax concessions to for-profit developers has a better chance…

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‘It’s a miracle’ Helsinki’s radical solution to homelessness

Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need…

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