Destroying Tent Cities Does Not Solve The Housing Problem!

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Dec 22 2024 | 00:14:14

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Show Notes

Migration into Australia remains too high, and has directly and indirectly caused a massive rise in homelessness. Tent cities have sprung up, and some councils are now trying to clear them moving homeless people on. So today we look at what caused the problem, and what this means for the homeless. One academic describes the decision by a homeless person to be seen as a “political act”. “They’re demonstrating their kind of deprivation through living in a tent in the public realm, and I’m glad that it pisses people off,” Cameron Parsell, a social sciences professor at the University of […]

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