Handouts miss mark for homeless Australia
- molly510
- Oct 15, 2019
- 1 min read
Free meals and charity blankets are a feel-good response and bandaid fix for Australia's homeless population, an international expert warns. Canadian Observatory of Homelessness chief executive Stephen Gaetz told attendees at a two-day homelessness conference in Melbourne that crisis response - such as food and shelter - should only be a short-term solution. "It is a very well-meaning response because we don't like to see people suffering on the streets," he told AAP of charity donations on the sidelines of the Victorian Homelessness Conference, which continues on Tuesday.
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