Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Housing, homeless and drugs: an interview with Moira Lawler

Katharine Moody

Fri, 07 Sept 2018 17:48:29 +1200

Excellent interview – very thought provoking. Those that staff these programmes must be amazing individuals – to work with people with complex needs on a one-to-one basis, without judgement and with this type of patience and creativity must be a really rare quality.

BenWilson

Fri, 07 Sept 2018 09:48:27 +1200

Some homeless guy died in some bushes near my house that I had often passed and thought would be a good place for homeless people to camp without being seen by passers by. Turns out to not really be that good at 5 degrees in the rain without a tent…

Russell Brown

Fri, 07 Sept 2018 09:23:45 +1200

As if the alternative is somehow better, that they continue living on the street, where of course addled people do so much better.

Yeah. I had a rather difficult conversation with a friend who used to live at Greys Ave yesterday, who was outraged that people had died on the…

BenWilson

Thu, 06 Sept 2018 14:33:57 +1200

This is a really good article.

One of our peer support workers, even people who are homeless, went ‘that won’t work, you can’t just put addled people into housing and expect them to do well’. But it does.”

It's really telling that we are even in this place. As if…

Public Address

Thu, 06 Sept 2018 14:33:57 +1200

Discussion from blog post.