Many homeless women in Canada spend years without housing, yet policies don’t reflect their realities.
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Our governments now have all the evidence they need to end homelessness. The new National Housing and Homelessness Plan is an opportunity to put it into practice.
Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness. The stories of women who had to flee their homes make it clear the dire shortage of social housing in Australia leaves them with nowhere to go.
To really reduce homelessness we need to prevent those at risk from ever becoming homeless in the first place.
Women, girls and gender-diverse people have unique experiences of housing and housing loss.
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Professor of Housing Economics, UNSW
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Project Manager and Data Analyst, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
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PhD Student, Geography, McGill University
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Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Western University
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Senior Researcher, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Gonski Institute for Education, UNSW
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Lecturer in Social Work, McMaster University