Indigenous homelessness: place, house and home

Summary

The research will involve ethnographic study of Indigenous homelessness in NSW and WA, trialling the categories developed by Memmott et al. (2003), and connect the understanding of homelessness with Indigenous housing careers via the current AHURI project on Indigenous urban housing careers.


Project Number: 80368
Research Theme: Homelessness, Indigenous_Housing
Project Leader: Birdsall-Jones, Christina
Funding Year: 2007
Research Centre: Western Australia

Description

The study takes a housing careers approach in order to discover:

  • why some Indigenous people are currently homeless
  • how this relates to their housing careers over the last decade
  • how being homeless relates to their shelter aspirations
  • how life stage, employment, family and community responsibilities, lifestyle choice and the availability of housing assistance and other supports have affected their current status as homeless.

Using a housing career approach makes it possible to provide models of paths to and from homelessness, further developing the current understanding of Indigenous homelessness.  The study will seek to relate the results to completed research and to look forward in seeking to identify:

  • the future shelter intentions of Indigenous homeless people
  • the nature of the assistance they are likely to require to fulfil these intentions
  • future directions for applied research in this field.

More Information

Download now Positioning Paper: No. 107: Indigenous homelessness: place, house and home
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Download now Final Report: No. 143: Indigenous homelessness
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