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    ‘Red dust homelessness’: Housing, home and homelessness in remote Australia

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    Authors
    Zufferey, C.
    Chung, Donna
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Zufferey, C. and Chung, D. 2015. ‘Red dust homelessness’: Housing, home and homelessness in remote Australia. Journal of Rural Studies. 41: pp. 13-22.
    Source Title
    Journal of Rural Studies
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.07.002
    Additional URLs
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016715300073
    ISSN
    0743-0167
    School
    School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46792
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Abstract Homelessness is often conceptualised as an urban problem. However, significant numbers of people experiencing homelessness live in regional, rural and remote areas, where distances can be considerable and there are fewer housing options and services available to assist them. Drawing on the perspectives of service providers, this paper discusses contested understandings of home and homelessness as well as housing and service provision in two remote Western Australian mining towns. The key findings were that normative policy definitions of homelessness that focused on ‘living in a house’ as a ‘home’ were not always culturally relevant for local Aboriginal communities, and there was limited access to adequate housing options in both communities. Furthermore, ‘top down’ funding and decisions often occurred without community consultation, which fragmented service delivery, limited ‘grassroots’ participation and constrained opportunities for locally relevant service responses. These findings highlight Westernised and urban assumptions underpinning the policy domain in which housing and homelessness responses are determined, emphasising the limits of current conceptualisations for Aboriginal people and service providers working in remote areas.

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