Climate change could quadruple homelessness in Australia within a decade

Climate change could force millions into homelessness and housing insecurity across Australia, disproportionately affecting low-income families and vulnerable populations.

At the intersection of climate science and social policy, researchers at the University of Sydney have issued a warning that reframes Australia's housing crisis not as an isolated economic problem, but as a civilizational stress test. Their modeling, built on nearly two decades of public data, projects that unchecked emissions could quadruple homelessness within a decade — a fate that falls most heavily on those already carrying the least. The study asks a question that transcends housing policy: what does a society owe its most vulnerable members when the ground itself is shifting beneath the

Climate change could quadruple homelessness in Australia within a decade

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