Churches Make Us Homeless

120418 Truelaw Outlaw Junction  News-Chop Churches Make Us Homeless Edition

 Scanning Go Ogle news this mournin', this article found it's way into my bwain, and prompted me to yell a few written words Fairfax's way

Abuse as a child linked to longer term homeless

ADELE HORIN
(Fairfax Digital network navigation)
The Warrnambool Standard

19 Apr, 2012 03:00 AM

TWO-THIRDS of people in a national study of homelessness suffered physical or sexual violence as children or had been neglected or emotionally abused. About one-third had been sexually assaulted.

The study by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research was commissioned by the federal government. It is the first stage in the Journeys Home project that will track homeless and marginally housed Australians over two years to determine the factors that contribute to longterm homelessness.

The study also reveals the Centrelink system that flags clients who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in order to give them special consideration may be failing to identify tens of thousands of vulnerable people.

The research is based on interviews with 1682 people flagged by Centrelink and another group that had not been flagged as homeless but identified by the researchers as having characteristics that also made them highly vulnerable.

It found those exposed to violence or abuse as children were much more likely to experience longer periods of homelessness over their lifetime. This was also true for people who had been in foster or residential care as children.

''It's clear the experience of trauma as children affects the length of time they are homeless,'' a researcher, Rosanna Scutella, said.

Contrary to expectations, the study found homelessness was not usually a short, one-off experience. Rather most of the people in the study had long, if broken, histories of homelessness, and found it difficult to make a permanent escape. They cycled between homelessness, marginal housing and stable housing.

''It looks like they can sometimes get stable housing but the problem is they can't keep it,'' Dr Scutella said.

This meant it was important to prevent people ever falling into homelessness, and if they became homeless to get them into stable housing quickly and help them stay there, she said.

The study indicates Centrelink had failed to flag 95,755 people as homeless or at risk of homelessness between January 2010 and May 2011, even though the researchers later found many in this group to be as vulnerable as the flagged groups.

For example, 15 per cent of this overlooked group were homeless when researchers conducted interviews with them, and they were no more likely to have found stable accommodation than the group Centrelink had flagged as homeless.

At the same time, only one-quarter of those Centrelink had flagged as homeless within the previous 18 months were still homeless when contacted by the researchers. About half were in stable housing, and the rest in marginal housing. But high proportions had been homeless during the previous six months, indicative of the fluid nature of their housing situation, Dr Scutella said.

The research will be presented at the Homelessness Research Conference in Melbourne today.

Centrelink did not respond to questions.

MY RESPONSE, sent to Fairfax media:

Is it that Fairfax is funded primarily by the real estate industry, or that your employee base comes from the heinous church schools' networks, that you basically "hid" the article about homelessness "Abuse as a child linked to longer term homeless" by ADELE HORIN, in the rural "The Warrnambool Standard" online paper, the same employee base which supplies the employees for Centrelink, all of whom are culpable of "dereliction of duty" to non-church-schooled Australians?

"Dereliction of duty" which in fact amounts to "crimes against humanity".

Having been severely abused throughout my childhood and adult life, significantly by church-based, "secret agenda" advocates, Catholic mainly, centred in the evil Theosophical Society cult, I've now been homeless for 17 years (Happy 57th Birthday to me, yesserday!), these issues and the various ways upclub government, corporate and media brats hide the underlying facts about religious abuses and maintain perceived ignorance of the issue of "land distribution", hit me very, very hard, and can clearly be seen as the fundamental causes for many people to act-out in brutal criminal ways.

That David Syme and his peers of the late 19th century attempted to go-to these very issues, and that Fairfax and our other mainstream media now ignore them at all costs, shows how weak-kneed the churches make their slavish graduates, and gives cause for anarchy and the most vicious wars seen.

Please feel free to forward this to my monitors, ASIO and the feds, and tell them, from me to "go f... themselves", for they are in the same basket of churchie cowards.

The article by Adele Horin, deserves higher placement, nationwide (I apologise if it is in the larger papers, The Age, SMH, etc), but should be the catalyst for a federal government inquiry both into the pathetic character of Centrelink and associated agency employees, and of the churches which "breed" these weak employees and indeed, abysmal government departments and agencies.

Our whole nation, and the world, is/are in perilous danger for what the so-called "religious" cults have and continue to breed.

Clearly, "religion" in the western world, has nothing at all to do with leading People to any "godliness". Rather they excel in leading us all in the opposite direction.

Or has Gina Rinehart got to your editorship already?

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