Pages from a militant life: Why are there homeless in a rich society?
In my last article I touched on housing. I want to explore the issue more. I was born and have spent most of my life in Queensland, Australia. It is a big place, seven times the size of Great Britain and two and a half times the size of Texas. For most of its history it has been governed by very conservative conservatives and very conservative social democrats. It is a conservative state today, ruled by the Labor Party for most of the last 30 years. That conservatism has held sway over housing policy for many decades, with the result that in a state which in many ways is very wealthy, there...