When members of the public complain about homeless people in their local park to Kate Incerti she thanks them.  It’s her way of demonstrating what it means to take a human rights approach to homelessness.  In this episode she tells us what human rights mean for homelessness, how it connects with our colonial history and what COVID-19 has shown us about providing more housing. Leonard Cohen helps us make sense of it all.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities
• AASW policy position on Housing and Homelessness
• The Scope of Social Work Practice: Social Work in Homelessness
• Social Work Focus Winter Spring 2018 containing several articles on social workers in housing and homelessness
• Council to Homeless persons
• Everybody’s home campaign
• The Right to Housing in Australia
• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
• Leonard Cohen: There is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In