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Addressing rough sleeping in three Australian cities : Private rental , social housing , and return to home communi

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Addressing rough sleeping in three Australian cities : Private rental , social housing , and return to home communi

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  1. Insert your logo here Addressing rough sleeping in threeAustraliancities: Privaterental, social housing, and return to home communities Cameron Parsell Institute for Social Science Research The University of Queensland

  2. Research • Australian Government, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA): Andrew Jones • Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI): Rhonda Phillips • University of Queensland • Multi-method, longitudinal

  3. Contemporary Australian Context • Affluence and ‘Australian identity’ • Rejection of crisis approach to permanently reducing the incidences of homelessness • Headline targets • Interventionalistapproaches • Social Inclusion • Learning from abroad: ‘evidence based’

  4. Contemporary Australian Context

  5. Street to Home (Sydney and Brisbane) • Street to Home is an integrated means of service delivery to assist people sleeping rough and/or experiencing chronic homelessness (1) immediately exit homelessness, (2) access and sustain stable housing, and (3) realise broader social, wellbeing and health outcomes (social inclusion)

  6. Street to Home (Sydney and Brisbane) • Vulnerable population – stereotypical image of ‘homeless person’ • Housing supply? • Assertive street outreach • Housing access • Housing support and supportive housing? • Non-housing outcomes?

  7. Common Ground Sydney

  8. Common Ground Brisbane

  9. Remote Indigenous Community

  10. Darwin • Neither the espoused policy objective nor the resources • Different phenomena and different problematisation • Short-term • Return to country • Out of place

  11. Darwin ‘long grass’

  12. Summative comments • Positive advancements • Most vulnerable, deserving or visible? • Common Ground – needed or misguided/paternal? • Resources = self-determination and autonomy • Skillful practice • Poverty and the allure of the city

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