Can Aboriginal homelessness in Australia ever be solved?
About 25% of homeless people in Australia are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, despite comprising just 2.5% of the general population.
'Instead of reducing the number of homeless people in Australia, why don't we just work towards preventing homelessness from happening in the first place?'
'About 25 per cent of homeless people are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, despite making up just 2.5 per cent of the general population. ... '
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“If you plan to have housing that people on the lowest incomes can afford, then you don’t really need to have homelessness at all."
“I think we’ll always have some people falling into homelessness but what it needs to be a brief and one-off experience, not this ongoing, crazy roundabout of temporary accommodation that people currently have.”
“If we can prevent that from happening in the first place, it will be better off for the community, economically, and these people will have a better quality of life.”
More at www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/culture/article/2017/06/26/can-homelessness-ever-be-solved
By Jens Korff | Last updated: 9 October 2016
70% of Aboriginal youth are homeless in the Northern Territory; in South Australia: 14%, in Western Australia: 49%, in Queensland: 17%, in NSW: 13%.
57% of Perth’s homeless are Aboriginal.
16,600 Aboriginal people are homeless on any given night.
A report shows that what drives Aboriginal people into homelessness is similar to non-Aboriginal people, but there are some significant differences.
Aboriginal people can suffer from spiritual homelessness, a term which describes dispossession and forced removal from homelands and family.
Another difference is the extended family network of Aboriginal people and the obligations that the people of this network expect.
Causes for Aboriginal youth homelessness include family breakdown, a reduction in public housing and the housing affordability crisis. ...
More at www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/land/aboriginal-houses
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