Ex-prisoners are more likely to become homeless but the reverse isn't true
- Written by Guy Johnson, Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
Statistics show that being homeless doesn't increase your risk of being incarcerated. Srdjan Randjelovic/Shutterstock
On the night the 2016 census was taken, more than 116,000 Australians were homeless. This was a 30% increase from the decade before.
What has driven this increase is difficult to pin down, but research points to a lack of...
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