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Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and 'housing first'

  • Written by Angela Spinney, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology

The stereotype of a homeless person – those living in tents or sleeping in parks or doorways – is just the visible tip of the much larger crisis of homelessness in Australia.

For every one of about 8,000 “rough sleepers” there about 14 others staying in temporary accommodation or with others in severely crowded dwellings....

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