The number of public school students experiencing homelessness in the US has increased 15% in the past three years, reaching its highest number in more than a decade. More than 1.5 million students reported...
Short-term lettings through Airbnb and other online platforms are “growing out of control” in London with up to one in 50 of all homes now estimated to be available, town hall bosses have claimed. The...
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...
Every urban housing market in New Zealand is regarded as “severely” unaffordable, a major report has found, despite efforts by the government to address skyrocketing property prices. The Demographia...
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...
A scheme revolutionising affordable housing in a deprived area hit by the right-to-buy policy and years of limited construction. Moving into a new two-bedroom bungalow in the village of St Helen Auckland in...
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...