The Right to Shelter, Colonialism and Leonard Cohen

When members of the public complain about homeless people in their local park to Kate Incerti she thanks them.  It’s her way of demonstrating what it means to take a human rights approach to homelessness.  In this episode she tells us what human rights mean for homelessness, how it connects with our colonial history and what COVID-19 has shown us about providing more housing. Leonard Cohen helps us make sense of it all.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities
• AASW policy position on Housing and Homelessness
• The Scope of Social Work Practice: Social Work in Homelessness
• Social Work Focus Winter Spring 2018 containing several articles on social workers in housing and homelessness
• Council to Homeless persons
• Everybody’s home campaign
• The Right to Housing in Australia
• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
• Leonard Cohen: There is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In

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