The government has announced its new top-priority approach for families with children in emergency housing, while signalling a stricter approach for those accessing it.
The Priority One category will mean families with dependent children in emergency housing for longer than 12 weeks would automatically move to the top of the waitlist, from April. Bishop said the policy was expected to prioritise about 800 of the roughly 3000 families on the waitlist.
However, Upston signalled it would come alongside a stricter approach to allowing people into emergency housing in the first place.
Wait so she said she specifically wants to take accommodation away from children ?
This is nightmarish.
It’s the weird belief that if they cut support then the government saves money. Instead of recognising that it just moves the cost into (among other places) the healthcare sector, one that is struggling already, which they recognise because they promised more funding in healthcare.
You’re right. It’s like how our high rates of child respiratory illness translate into a long term burden on health system. But kids being homeless is a worse version. Unless their aim is to save money by the kids actually dying??
I don’t know if social macroeconomics is a discipline but if it is then governments should have to take mandatory classes in it.