A presentation given by Cameron Parsell, AU at a FEANTSA Research Conference on "Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe", York, September 2012

1. Insert your logo here
Addressing rough sleeping in
threeAustraliancities: Privaterental, social
housing, and return to home communities
Cameron Parsell
Institute for Social Science Research
The University of Queensland
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

2. Research
 Australian Government, Department of
Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA):
Andrew Jones
 Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute (AHURI): Rhonda Phillips
 University of Queensland
 Multi-method, longitudinal
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

3. Contemporary Australian Context
 Affluence and ‘Australian identity’
 Rejection of crisis approach to
permanently reducing the incidences of
homelessness
 Headline targets
 Interventionalistapproaches
 Social Inclusion
 Learning from abroad: ‘evidence based’
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

4. Contemporary Australian Context
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

5. Street to Home (Sydney and Brisbane)
• Street to Home is an integrated means of
service delivery to assist people sleeping
rough and/or experiencing chronic
homelessness (1) immediately exit
homelessness, (2) access and sustain
stable housing, and (3) realise broader
social, wellbeing and health outcomes
(social inclusion)
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

6. Street to Home (Sydney and Brisbane)
 Vulnerable population – stereotypical
image of ‘homeless person’
 Housing supply?
 Assertive street outreach
 Housing access
 Housing support and supportive housing?
 Non-housing outcomes?
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

7. Common Ground Sydney
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

8. Common Ground Brisbane
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

9. Remote Indigenous Community
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

10. Darwin
 Neither the espoused policy objective nor
the resources
 Different phenomena and different
problematisation
 Short-term
 Return to country
 Out of place
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

11. Darwin ‘long grass’
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012

12. Summative comments
 Positive advancements
 Most vulnerable, deserving or visible?
 Common Ground – needed or
misguided/paternal?
 Resources = self-determination and
autonomy
 Skillful practice
 Poverty and the allure of the city
European Research Conference
Access to Housing for Homeless People in Europe
York, 21st September 2012