Community Sector Climate Declaration
Rapidly worsening climate change is hurting our communities. The Community Housing sector has been on the frontline of helping communities respond to the impacts of more intense and frequent bushfires,...
homelessness
Housing Affordability issues illuminated during Homelessness Week
National Shelter is shining a light on Australians living in the dark shadows of the nation’s housing affordability crisis during National Homelessness week from 1-7 August. Over the past year most...
Women fleeing domestic violence ‘trapped’ in refuges due to lack of housing, advocates say
Women and children fleeing domestic violence in Queensland have spent years “trapped” in refuges and other crisis accommodation due to a chronic shortage of secure long-term housing. Community...
‘It would make me feel like I belong’: Mick Combo’s lifelong quest for a home
At 59, Mick Combo has never had a home to call his own. The Stolen Generations survivor was taken from his mother in Western Australia as a two-year-old, and raised in state institutions to believe he was...
If we realised how much homelessness was costing us, we’d fix it overnight
Australia’s six-month moratorium on evictions is due to end soon. Some states have extended the moratorium, but when it ends that’s likely to force even more Australians into housing insecurity and...
The Homeless Hub: Pandemic Planning
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada and the curator of the Homeless Hub. The Homeless Hub Blog currently features several...
The many faces of social housing – home to one in 10 Australians
On any one night in Australia, just over four per cent of households rent social housing. Yet it has housed many more people than this for brief, and sometimes repeated, periods. We estimate up to 10 per...
‘We’re not prepared’: coronavirus could devastate homeless communities
The lack of a coordinated coronavirus strategy for homeless communities could be catastrophic for sick and older people already struggling to survive in tents and overcrowded shelters in California, advocates...
Hope is restored for homeless people with Going Places trial that focuses on health
At 58, Jackson Beaumont is halfway through two university degrees, scoring top marks in all his classes and laying the foundations to start a PhD in archaeology. He describes his life as full of purpose,...
Addiction psychiatry can reduce homelessness – and yet it’s at risk
While discussions about the accuracy of the latest government figures for numbers of rough sleepers in England and Wales will no doubt continue (Homelessness: Ministry accused of under-reporting issue, 27...