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...
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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...
Deaths of homeless people sleeping in bins prompt calls for action
Rough sleepers are sheltering in bins all year round, with surging homelessness in the UK blamed for a rising number of deaths by crushing and near misses while containers are being emptied, a waste industry...
Unpacking ‘severely overcrowded housing’
In the latest piece from our new housing team, Georgia revisits the topic of overcrowding to see how the technical definition of an overcrowded dwelling reflects the reality in Australia today. You...
Being Aboriginal with a disability a ‘double whammy’, royal commission told
Narelle Reynolds, who has two disabled sons, says her family has been pushed into homelessness. A Wiradjuri woman who is the full-time carer for two adult sons with intellectual disabilities has told the...
Over 3 million Australians locked into poverty
Fewer entry-level jobs, rising housing costs, and inadequate welfare rates are just some of the contributing factors to more than one in eight adults living in poverty, with sector leaders banding together to...
Government inquiry launches to find answers to homelessness
A federal parliamentary inquiry seeking to understand how people become homeless and how to prevent it has launched, as the number of people experiencing homelessness in Australia reaches record...