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Homelessness services need safe affordable housing, advocates argue

Original: Haven’t we learned this yet? Assertive outreach & access to supports is important, but without offering safe, affordable

Commenters are arguing that assertive outreach and support programs for people experiencing homelessness cannot work without safe, affordable housing behind them. Drawing parallels to the closure of state asylums, they warn that services lacking a housing component only produce repeating cycles of crisis, and point to past programs that offered safe and stable accommodation as the missing piece of current policy.

Why now: Ongoing concerns about homelessness policy repeating the mistakes of deinstitutionalisation

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• Haven’t we learned this yet? Assertive outreach & access to supports is important, but without offering safe, affordable housing they will only generate cycles of crisis. Remember when states closed the asylums? The programs (most conspicuously in Victoria) that offered safe &… · 26pglt@mastodon.au · 7

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