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Look beyond crisis accommodation so people like Courtney Herron aren’t homeless in the first place

Publisher/s

The Conversation

Author/s

David MacKenzie and Tammy Hand

Abstract

Courtney Herron had been couch-surfing and sleeping rough. She was experiencing mental health issues and trying to deal with drug addiction. Her shocking death, an act of violence against a young woman, reminds us of the vulnerability of rough sleeping, and the disturbing and continuing reality of youth homelessness.

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