How is homelessness a social justice issue

As well, homelessness is directly linked to the criminal justice system — many discharged inmates end up experiencing homelessness and, conversely, many people experiencing homelessness wind up in prison. Increasing access to jail diversion and alternatives to incarceration.

Expanding evidence-based housing and services solutions like supportive housing for people caught in a cycle of homelessness and incarceration.

Instead, homelessness mirrors everything that is broken in our society. It reflects our biases, our meanness, our lack of compassion and our views of each other as fellow human beings.

When we speak of homelessness, our words--along with our programs, funding streams, and academic research--often focus appropriately on housing, healthcare and services. All are essential for ending homelessness. Yet, homelessness is about more than this. It is also about poverty, oppression, ostracism, inequality, and racial injustice.

When we massively reduce affordable housing, homelessness results. When millions of people are crushed by medical bills because they have been denied coverage, homelessness results. When our education system gives some children the best opportunities and leaves other languishing in illiteracy and crumbling schools, homelessness results.

When access to mental health and substance use treatment is non-existent for all but those with the means to pay, homelessness results. When racial discrimination stubbornly persists in housing and employment, homelessness results. We are a lay Catholic organisation working towards a more just and compassionate society The St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia wishes to acknowledge that we are on Aboriginal land.

We pay our respects to all traditional custodians. This website may contain images of deceased members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. They are used with the greatest respect and appreciation. How will Vinnies use my donation?

Is the Vinnies website secure? Are administrative fees taken out of my donation? Will I get a donation receipt? Is my donation tax deductible? Does my money actually go to the people affected by the fires? This means the government supplies low-rental housing for those who are in most need and unable to purchase housing or afford private rental housing. They have no option but to scramble for emergency accommodation. This is a temporary or short-term-only accommodation in response to a current crisis.

For many low income families sinking to this point is the end result of a long line of events and circumstances ending perhaps with a crippling feeling deep inside of emptiness and powerlessness.

Boarding houses are a form of shared accommodation, in which residents occupy 1 or for families 2 rooms and share cooking, bathing and toilet facilities. Nothing much! There are national standards for the production of plastic chairs but there are still no regulations to protect the wellbeing of residents in boarding houses.

It seems that funding to supply more public housing is being heavily slashed.