It’s not often you’re led to consider your own birth in terms of convenience. Over the past few years I’ve led myself to the knowledge that my arrival, in the early 1990s, must have come as a relief for...
Austerity measures have affected our country and, particularly, our community. Food banks and homelessness have increased so dramatically that we wanted to do something to help. After a bit of searching we...
As homeless encampments continue to get shut down or swept up, some local lawmakers are looking at the 37MLK camp as a model. A miniature white picket fence lines the entryway into the...
Thousands of people have camped out overnight as part of a global effort to raise cash to tackle homelessness. Celebrities were among the hundreds taking part in the World's Big Sleep Out in London, Edinburgh...
Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren has hit out against the "exponential rise in homelessness" as she prepares to sleep out in central London as part of a global charity appeal to fight the...
Domestic violence is a key cause of women experiencing homelessness – and cuts mean services to protect them have been destroyed. I first came across Sharron Maasz in January this year when I watched her...
Half of all homeless people may have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in their life, according to new research – which experts say could be either a consequence or even the cause of their...
A 30% rise in people waiting for state housing in Northland region fuels country’s ‘desperate’ shortage in affordable homes. New Zealand government MPs have heard that the housing situation in...
It is tasked with tiding over unemployed Australians until they can find work, but new research suggests Centrelink is putting vulnerable people at risk of homelessness. The Homeward Bound report, released...
They change countries to take up new jobs. But when these fall through or they can no longer work, thousands are finding there’s no safety net to catch them. It was more than a decade after Hana* moved to...