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YOUR RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
SHELTER IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT. Yet for many people living in the lower-, and now even the middle-income bracket in Australia, this right is fast eroding away. The cost of purchasing or renting a place to live stands at an all-time high. Waiting lists for public housing are years long. Families, singles, and the elderly who are priced out of suitable accommodation are being forced to move into caravans, tents, and anything else they can find.
Australia's current crisis in affordable housing is one form of what's become a global challenge. In the United States, for example, the housing boom of the past several years led some home buyers to take on mortgage payments they couldn't afford down the road, and many of those families are losing their homes to foreclosures. Any challenge to a basic right demands solutions. So what can we do?
About the author
Beverly Goldsmith is a contributing editor. She practices and teaches Christian Science healing in Brisbane, Australia.

October 1, 2007 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from DOROTHY B. LOMBARD, CURTIS KAINE, HELEN HOLDEN, DAVE HORN
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The 'grace way' to solvency
WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
with contributions from Joe Birch, Jason Bain
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A life in balance
BY MICHAEL PABST
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Our livelihood—entrusted to God
BY JOAN MIKKELSEN
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Prayer paves a practical road out of consumer debt
BY PAMELA FAATZ
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A STORY OF GRACE
BY DOUG SYTSMA
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NOT HALF BUT WHOLE
BY KATHLEEN S. MCKOWN
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BACK TO SQUARE ONE WITH GOD
BY ALI TOZIER
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God helps us at camp—and everywhere
with contributions from Lucy Jane Hurley, Justin Wad
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POINTS OF LIGHT
ROSALINDA JOHNSON
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YOUR RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
BEVERLY GOLDSMITH
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TRUST IN GOD 'STEP BY STEP'
CHARLES R. HARVUOT
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'I AM THE LORD, YOUR PHYSICIAN'
MARION OTTOWICX
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HEALED BEFORE TESTIMONY MEETING
IAN GUDGER