In this submission the HPLC responds to the Federal Government’s Green Paper on homelessness. Through the Green Paper process the Government has stated that it seeks to renew the fight against homelessness and find new approaches and solutions to this issue. In its submission, amongst other things, the HPLC argued that the Federal Government should situate homelessness within a human rights framework, review and amend all Federal (and state) laws that impact disproportionately on or discriminate against people experiencing homelessness, introduce a Homelessness Act that enshrines an enforceable right to adequate housing and introduce a Federal Charter of Rights incorporating social economic and cultural rights as well as civil and political ones, following comprehensive communityconsultation.
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