Brisbane can become a historic leader amongst Olympic host cities if it acts early to create a positive housing legacy for all, including the city’s homeless population, according to QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Lyndall Bryant.
Dr Bryant is a leading Australian expert in property economics and the housing crisis, and leads the QUT Centre for Justice Housing Security Research Group.
Lyndall’s latest QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper, part of the recently released Housing and Homeless Series, titled, Homelessness and the Olympic Legacy: The good, the bad and the ugly, analyses the chequered history of prior Olympic host cities’ responses to homeless people and other vulnerable communities.
Read more about the paper here.
Read the full QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Paper Series on Housing and Homelessness here.
Since publication Lyndall has featured in a number of media sources discussing her paper:
Is the Olympics an opportunity to act on the housing crisis? – ABC listen
Life Matters on ABC Radio National
Cover Image – Andrew Merry, via Getty Images.
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