[ANSWER]101596 Context of Human Services Assignment 3 Change Proposal: Addressing Homelessness in New South Wales via the Housing First Model

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Context of Human Services : While homelessness is prevalent across the entire state, it is more concentrated in major metropolitan areas, especially Sydney (NSW Parliament 2018). Homeless people find shelter in a range of structures and spaces, including improvised dwellings (such as tents), supported homeless accommodations, boarding houses, temporary lodgings, and severely crowded dwellings (Simon-Davies 2018). In NSW, persons living in severely crowded dwellings represented approximately 45% of the total homeless population in the state in 2016 (NSW Parliament 2018).     Homelessness is an especially problematic issue as it reflects the inequalities that exist in NSW and Australia at large.

Statistics reveals that homelessness in Australia is more pronounced among vulnerable groups compared to the rest of the population, such as the poor, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, young people, victims of domestic violence (particularly women), the elderly, the disabled, as well as culturally and linguistically diverse persons (ABS 2018)(Context of Human Services). To illustrate, people aged 35 and below comprised approximately 60% of the total homeless people nationally in 2016.

Additionally, indigenous Australians represent only 3% of the country’s overall population, but account for 20% the total homeless population. In NSW in particular, the rates of homelessness in young people aged 19-24 years and 25-34 years were 109.4 people per 10,000 and 81.6 people per…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 2162 WORDS]

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