https://www.policyforum.net/australia-end-homelessness/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:54:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/australia-end-homelessness/#comment-9900 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:54:24 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=20290#comment-9900 Not long ago there was an interview (on the ABC of course!) with a man from Finland. There they have put providing housing at the centre of their national policy for addressing homelessness, poor health, substance abuse, unemployment, social violence, and other socioeconomic.
If I recall correctly, they call it ‘Housing First’. They have built some 100,00 housing units in the last 5-10 years, in parallel they have seen significant improvements in social ‘psotives’ (employment, health, etc.) and parallel declines in social ‘negatives’.
In their view and experienvce access to stabel housing is the key for resolving a wide range of other supposedly ‘intratatable’ social problems.
How might such a policy and approach work in Australia?

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