Homelessness in Perth: What It Really Looks Like | St Barts | Home Building Podcast
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Homelessness in Perth is more common than most people realise. Vanessa Baxter from St Bart’s joins the podcast to explain what homelessness actually looks like and how Perth’s services work together to help people off the street and into stable housing.
Chapters
00:23 – Homelessness in Perth
00:57 – What St Bart’s does
01:17 – Redefining what homelessness actually looks like
01:42 – Hidden homelessness among women
02:08 – Perth’s 22,000-person social housing waitlist
02:45 – The “no wrong door” referral network
04:20 – Inside transitional housing
04:59 – Case study: four months living at Perth Airport
07:23 – Relearning trust and social norms
14:04 – Why housing alone doesn’t solve homelessness
20:43 – Building two new sites: aged care and social housing
27:01 – Why we’re all “2-3 steps away” from homelessness
28:04 – The impact on life expectancy
37:45 – $10K Questions
00:57 – What St Bart’s does
01:17 – Redefining what homelessness actually looks like
01:42 – Hidden homelessness among women
02:08 – Perth’s 22,000-person social housing waitlist
02:45 – The “no wrong door” referral network
04:20 – Inside transitional housing
04:59 – Case study: four months living at Perth Airport
07:23 – Relearning trust and social norms
14:04 – Why housing alone doesn’t solve homelessness
20:43 – Building two new sites: aged care and social housing
27:01 – Why we’re all “2-3 steps away” from homelessness
28:04 – The impact on life expectancy
37:45 – $10K Questions
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