Category: homelessness
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Karyn Walsh – Covid Impacts on Micah Projects – Homelessness
Karyn Walsh AM is the CEO of Micah Projects in Queensland. She has been leading the organisation for many years and also led many sector projects at a state and national level. Her commitments have included leading Chairing the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, and being a past President of the Queensland Council of Social…
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We can’t afford “Unaffordable Housing”
It seems that there is much in the media about house prices, interest rates, tax systems, and how these conspire to make housing unaffordable. Perhaps there are other elements that we should be factoring into the equation. I have always had a bed to go to each night. Mostly, that has been somewhere of my…
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Ending homelessness! Do you want fries with that?
There are “wicked problems” confronting the Australian community, like homelessness, and domestic violence. Until now it has mostly been governments and community organisations that have taken the lead in tackling them. Can private corporations play a major role, not just in service delivery in these issues, but in actually solving them? I had a cycling…
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The High Cost of Homelessness
It may sound perverse – but we need to get a better handle on how much homelessness is costing us as a society. In mid 2014 I spoke at the “Homelessness: We can’t afford to ignore it” conference, put on by CHCWA . I enjoyed the debate and conversation and was inspired, as I had hoped…
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“One by One” we can end homelessness
How many people will we find when we go out onto the early morning streets of Perth in mid May? How long will some people have been on the streets? How unwell will some of these people be? In August 2012 Ruah coordinated the first Registry Week event in Perth, where about 80 volunteers went…
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