Homelessness Is a Housing Issue
While government’s role in creating affordable housing is to create policies, provide services, and build the crucial political will that encourages and promotes development of more housing, moving from...
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With a climate crisis and a housing crisis, why is Minneapolis regulating building material aesthetics?
A parade of building contractors and material suppliers formed at the podium during last week’s meeting of the Minneapolis Planning Commission. Without exception, they expressed their displeasure at the...
The Week in Housing: Sunak puts housing under the radar
This news is produced by the UK based Inside Housing publication. This week, the Inside Housing news team’s workload has been understandably dominated by the Budget and Spending Review. Chancellor...
The Global Housing Market Is Broken, and It’s Dividing Entire Countries
The dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike are struggling with the consequences. Soaring property prices are forcing people all over the...
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...
When governments sell out to developers, housing is no longer a human right
Afew weeks ago in Auckland, while getting into a cab, a colleague and I were having an animated discussion about the merits of a capital gains tax. Before greeting us, the driver chimed in with his dislike for...
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...
‘They allowed the perfect storm’: UN expert damns New Zealand’s housing crisis
When Leilani Farha touches down in a new city, the first thing the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing does is look up. In Melbourne, Toronto, London and Dublin, the skies above are...
‘War on the poor’: Las Vegas’s homelessness crackdown takes effect
Outside a Taco Bell in south-east Las Vegas, Skateboard Mike crossed an empty parking lot and pointed at the tent encampment that had built up on the ledges of a storm drain. Skateboard Mike, whose real...
Condemned to Poverty: The Reality of Homelessness, Precarious Housing, and Cyclical Poverty in A Small Town
My name is Leigh Bursey. I am a 32-year old municipal councillor in the beautiful city of Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Currently in my third term of governance, I have had the privilege of representing this...