Question

Write a policy brief for homeless in Australia stating approprite new and polices required to decrease the homelessness problems in Australia.

Answer 1

Looking to the future, the ongoing restructuring of private rental markets seems likely to keep pushing up the numbers of people subject to housing insecurity. The availability of affordable low-rent housing continues to contract.

For any realistic chance of progress, the Australian government needs to reconfirm recognition of homelessness as a social ill that must not be ignored. It needs to re-engage with the problem, starting with a coherent strategic vision to reduce the scale of homelessness by a measurable amount within a defined period. And it needs to recommit to a level of government support that ensures enough social and affordable housing is provided to keep pace with growing need, at the very least.

Many welfare states throughout the industrialised world have recently implemented policies to achieve targeted reductions in homelessness. These policy and welfare initiatives differ across national contexts. They are similar, however, in moving away from social programmes that have essentially ‘managed homelessness’ towards interventions that seek to permanently end homelessness. Australia has recently adopted similar homelessness policy objectives.

Australian social programmes adopted from the UK and USA as a means to achieve strategic goals of reducing homelessness. It argues that although Australian homelessness policy objectives are converging with international policy, Australian programmes modelled on international successes do not have some of the elements shown elsewhere to be crucial for achieving sustainable reductions in homelessness. This may become central to explaining programme outcomes in future years.

A key focus is directed towards those individuals deemed to be most vulnerable and this is often taken to be synonymous with living in public places.

Street Swags' approach was originally aligned with the Australian Government policy directive aimed at "managing homelessness with harm minimisation responses" . The homelessness policy direction in Australia, however, has recently taken a dramatic shift to a dual focus of prevention and early intervention and purposeful intervention to assist people to exit from homelessness permanently.

THANKS FOR READING.

PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO GIVE GOOD RATING.

HAVE A NICE DAY.

DR. PRADY