Here’s a ‘top 7’ summary of my recent book chapter on homelessness in Yellowknife: Responding to homelessness in Yellowknife: Pushing the ocean back with a spoon
Housing
The High Court ruled against Croydon Council in relation to its treatment of a disabled asylum seeker.
There are two things the prime minister needs to get into his head about tax. One is that saying he won’t make any further changes no longer works. The other is that negative gearing doesn’t do much to get people into homes. Anthony Albanese seemed to have taken the first point on board when he Continue reading »
If you were running the state suffering the very worst of Australia’s housing disaster, a state where the number of public and community housing dwellings actually went backwards last financial year, you might want to grab any and every opportunity to ease the crisis – but you’re not running New South Wales. Since defeating the Continue reading »
A blaze in a West London block of flats last week reveals how the leasehold system is still putting lives at risk, writes Labour MP Barry Gardiner
A legal settlement between various parties and the families of Grenfell victims suggests where the responsibility for the 2017 fire actually lies
The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased, supply has not and the various announced policies stretching out in the distance aren’t enough to make a significant difference. However bad you think the Australian public and community housing crisis is, it worsened over the Continue reading »
by Dave Rollo
Vermont takes its name from the French Monts Verts, or Green Mountains, the state’s rolling hills that host maple, birch, and beech forests in the south and spruce and fir in the north. Quaint towns and farms, many retaining their historic structures, are nestled in the mountain valleys. Lakes, streams, and wetlands are plentiful. And farms are everywhere: Vermont consistently ranks as one of the top states in the nation for local food production.
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Housing affordability is a common topic of conversation across Australia. Taking the case study of Regional Victoria, Nenad takes a look at how rising housing costs impacts an area’s ability to attract and house key workers for that...Chapter 7 of my open access textbook has just been released. This chapter focuses on homelessness experienced by racialized persons. A ‘top 10’ summary of the chapter can be found here (in English):https://nickfalvo.ca/homelessness-among-racialized-persons/ A ‘top 10’ summary of the chapter in French can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-personnes-racialisees/ The full chapter can be found here (English only):https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Falvo-Chapter-7-Racialized-Persons-2jan2024.pdf All material related to the [...]