One Australian survey found more than a third of private renters feel their housing situation is harming their mental health.
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The risk of eviction is not just limited to those in precarious financial situations, but can impact renters across the board.
Programs to help men to stop using violence are crucial, but are men meaningfully engaging with them? Our new study found opportunities to increase engagement, and in doing so, better protect women.
A professor of counseling who researches homelessness offers tips to help parents gets the school support and accommodations for their children.
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
Rent assistance can ease rental stress, but it won’t help low-income earners find secure and affordable housing when it’s in such short supply, nor stop disadvantage being concentrated in some areas.
The pandemic put a spotlight on inequalities among college students. But students’ resources were unequal all along.
Governments and universities have failed to prepare for an increase in housing demand amid planned enrolment growth in higher education and a crisis driven by treating housing as an investment.
Unaffordability is only one type of housing vulnerability that has taken its toll on British Columbians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new Australian documentary gives voice to the women in urgent need of policy action on housing insecurity and homelessness.
Our study reveals that the housing affordability crisis is having a pervasive impact on Canadian society. It is imposing constraints that alter the structure and composition of Canadian families.
Governments and organizations must listen to older adults’ experiences with extreme heat, flooding and wildfire smoke to create effective policies and programs
Addressing the housing issue by adopting a human right framework put Canada on an accelerated path to meet newcomer families’ housing needs.
Ensuring visible minorities have equitable access to affordable housing is an important step in fulfilling the National Housing Strategy’s goal to make affordable housing available to all Canadians.
While decent housing and food are fundamental human rights, they are often treated separately, and primarily as commodities. How can we tackle housing and food insecurity together, and better?
Controlling for other factors, the mental health cost of renting can be eliminated through longer tenure and greater security.
Providing more decommodified housing alternatives, like co-op, could offer a partial remedy to rampant housing inequality in Canada.
The conversation about housing policies needs to highlight the significant role the state plays in creating existing housing problems, and providing the resulting solutions.
New research shows homes in white areas have appreciated $200,000 more since 1980 than similar homes in nonwhite areas – a result of both old racist housing policies and modern real estate practices.
High rents and insecurity are constant sources of financial and emotional stress for low-income women. They describe what it’s like struggling to survive and being one step away from being homeless.
Top contributors
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PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness and Urban Studies (HHAUS) Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies (HHAUS) research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Politics and Sociology, Southern Cross University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Southern Cross University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland