Alfred Deakin Institute Policy Forum
Homelessness in the 21st Century Australian City
Date: Monday 18 December
Time: 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Location: Deakin Downtown, Tower 2, Level 12, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne.
The issue of homelessness has captured the nation’s attention in dramatic new ways. The number of people sleeping rough in cities like Melbourne and Sydney has grown starkly and suddenly.
Homeless Australians have congregated in public spaces for both pragmatic and political reasons, prompting conflicts like the recent evictions of campers from Martin Place and Flinders Street.
Members of the greater public have evinced a spectrum of responses, from compassion to contempt, and mounted a range of projects, rhetorical, regulatory, and humanitarian alike. What are their implications? How will this issue unfold as the transformation of our cities continues apace?