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"The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us our health is intimately connected
to the health of the person next to us, and that everyone needs shelter.
It has created unprecedented urgency about moving people who are
homeless into emergency accommodation – for their health and ours. So
what happens next?
Getting people into hotel and motel rooms and off the streets is a good
thing, but these are stopgap measures. They don’t provide a home.
The rush to shelter people before the peak of the virus has been driven
by a pressing need to protect us all. As the only seven-day-a-week
mobile outreach service still operating in Victoria, Launch Housing has
temporarily housed 800 people, half of whom were sleeping rough. So what
will happen to them and the thousands of other Australians in emergency
accommodation when social-distancing restrictions ease and our world
returns to something resembling normal?
Will they exit back into street homelessness to become the face of fear
and stigma, while the rest of the community returns to more social
activities?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
