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Homelessness can be caused by a combination of factors such as poverty, unemployment, lack of affordable housing, mental health issues, addiction, family or relationship breakdown, domestic violence, and inadequate support systems. Individual circumstances and systemic factors play a role in pushing people into homelessness and making it difficult to escape it.
The number of people in prison has increased by nearly 50% since 2000.
People from disadvantaged or marginalised groups are far more likely to come into contact with police and prisons than anybody else.
Inter-generational poverty, homelessness, lack of education and opportunity, and exposure to constant policing cause more and more young people from disadvantaged communities to be criminalised.
We should be providing solutions to disadvantage, not locking people up.
Source: Justice Reform Initiative
So far this year I helped provide
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Individual support programs
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Beds
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Meals
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