Housing And Poverty In Australia
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of welfare policy and urban inequality, Housing and Poverty in Australia presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of modern Australia's most pressing social challenges. M.A. Jones, writing as a Research Officer at the Department of Labour and National Service, draws on authoritative primary data to document the systemic failures that left thousands of Australians without adequate or affordable shelter, arguing that housing insecurity is not an accident of circumstance but a consequence of deliberate policy choices and institutional neglect. The work situates Australia's housing crisis within a broader framework of socioeconomic inequality, tracing the structural conditions that entrench poverty across generations. Jones writes with the measured authority of a policy insider, presenting statistical evidence alongside human consequence in a style that is both analytically precise and socially urgent. A foundational text for understanding the relationship between government policy and social welfare in twentieth-century Australia, this volume raises questions about equity and governance that remain as relevant today as when they were first posed.
Author: M.A. Jones
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of welfare policy and urban inequality, Housing and Poverty in Australia presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of modern Australia's most pressing social challenges. M.A. Jones, writing as a Research Officer at the Department of Labour and National Service, draws on authoritative primary data to document the systemic failures that left thousands of Australians without adequate or affordable shelter, arguing that housing insecurity is not an accident of circumstance but a consequence of deliberate policy choices and institutional neglect. The work situates Australia's housing crisis within a broader framework of socioeconomic inequality, tracing the structural conditions that entrench poverty across generations. Jones writes with the measured authority of a policy insider, presenting statistical evidence alongside human consequence in a style that is both analytically precise and socially urgent. A foundational text for understanding the relationship between government policy and social welfare in twentieth-century Australia, this volume raises questions about equity and governance that remain as relevant today as when they were first posed.