The Housing Justice Essentials series.
Australia is experiencing a steadily and rapidly increasing housing crisis.
Home ownership is out of reach to most. Fewer people can afford a decent rental. For almost 20 years now, the number of people who experience homelessness in Australia has been steadily increasing.
Why are we here?
What can we do about it?
Housing Justice Essentials is a series of 21 short workshops designed to facilitate a collective exploration of the housing issues in Australia and the necessary features of a more just society.
Skye and Christine have designed this workshop series drawing on their lived, professional, advocacy, and research experience with issues of housing justice.
Despite, or because of, Christine and Skye’s decades of experience in working with homelessness and housing issues they still have many questions about how housing justice might be achieved in Australia. Skye and Chris look forward to learning alongside you and collectively moving towards something better!
Workshop sessions:
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#1 What do we know about housing justice?
Housing as a need, a right, or a commodity?
Housing policies and regulations in Australia
Housing justice isn't just affordable housing
Home and homelessness through a social justice lens
Housing justice through the private market?
Housing justice through the social services sectors?
From Housing First to housing justice
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#2 Caring for ourselves and each other
Equality, equity, and justice
Diversity and intersectionality
Understanding trauma
Self determination and power
Collaboration
Communication
Boundaries and limits
Trauma informed self care
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#3 Where do we go from here?
What could housing justice look like?
Lived/living experience in housing justice
Trauma informed advocacy
Living in communities
Developing citizen action
Where do we go from here?