Homelessness
Media and commentary on our work protecting the rights of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and helping people avoid or exit homelessness.
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Know your rights: public spaces in NSW
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) at PIAC has put together a brochure outlining people’s rights in public spaces – particularly aimed at people experiencing homelessness in the inner city of Sydney, but relevant to all public places in NSW. Please feel free to print and distribute this version. Contact us for printed copies. Guide…
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Remembering Dale King – 1955-2017
By Louis Schetzer, Senior Policy Officer, Homelessness, PIAC It is with much sadness that we note that Dale King, a committed and long-time StreetCare member and fearless advocate for homeless consumers, passed away in late November following a short illness. Dale was a larger than life character. From the time he started in StreetCare in…
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Proposed homelessness laws heavy-handed and counter-productive
The NSW Government’s proposed new laws to give police more power to forcibly evict homeless people from public spaces are heavy-handed and an ineffective way of dealing with homelessness in the inner city. ‘There are over 400 rough sleepers in the city on any given night, and these laws will affect all of them,’ said…
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Sleeping rough, stigma and the importance of home
It’s time to talk about homelessness Despite Australia’s record economic boom, rates of homelessness have been on the rise for years, and the social stigma surrounding homelessness only perpetuates the problem. Join the host of SBS’s Insight, Jenny Brockie, and an expert panel for this public event to discuss the realities of homelessness in…
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Facing the outside world – the voices of those who exit prison into homelessness
By Louis Schetzer, Senior Policy Officer, Homelessness, Public Interest Advocacy Centre “All I’ve known is crime and drugs and jail. My home is jail. This is like my holiday, in there’s my home.” The interrelationship between homelessness, criminal offending, incarceration and then release from custody into homelessness to repeat the cycle has been noted in…
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Submission to the UN: DV the most common cause of homelessness
Domestic and family violence is the most common cause of homelessness in Australia, according to the NGO report to the UN committee for Economic Social and Cultural Rights. This report has been submitted to the 2017 review of Australia’s fifth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. PIAC contributed to…
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Urgent need for more legal services for DV victims: Report
More resources are needed to address the complex legal needs of women escaping domestic violence, according to a new report, released today by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. The report comes at a time when community legal centres, which are at the front line of providing legal assistance to the most at-risk members of the…
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StreetCare join Minister for City of Sydney street count
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, members of StreetCare, PIAC’s consumer advisory group on homelessness, participated in the City of Sydney’s street count, accompanying Minister Pru Goward, and sharing their first-hand experience of homelessness. Street count aims to collect up to date information about the number of homeless people in the local area. Over…