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Homelessness

Homelessness crisis worsens with nationwide rough sleeping rising by 22%

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A new collaborative report by UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre, University of Queensland and Homelessness Australia, shows a 22% increase in rough sleeping nationwide over the past three years. Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 highlights that in New South Wales, rough sleeping has surged by 51%, with regional areas being the hardest hit. The deepening housing …

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New toolkit could help local councils manage homelessness in communities

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Currently over 120 000 Australians sleeping rough each night, but as the homelessness crisis continues to deepen nation-wide, metropolitan and regional suburbs are experiencing a vast range of impacts. So how can local councils respond to the issue and what role can they play in tackling the crisis at a local and broader level? A …

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Homelessness body urges Victoria to build 60,000 homes

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“A catastrophe in housing provision for First Nations people” is how the leader of Victoria’s Peak Body to end homelessness, has described the situation in that/our state. The Council to Homelessness Persons is calling on the Victorian Government to make a commitment to build 60,000 public houses for Victoria’s homeless. Council CEO, Deborah Di Natale, …

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Calls for action amid Australia’s rising homelessness

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Over half a million low-income households in Australia are either experiencing homelessness, live in overcrowded homes or are spending over 30 percent of their income on rent – that’s according to a recent report, Quantifying Australia’s Unmet Housing Need: A national Snapshot. Here in South Australia over 7000 are without secure housing, and one local …

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More Aussies in financial struggles and homelessness

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The current cost-of-living crisis has stung millions, with over half of Australians feeling the pinch. According to a new report by Orange Sky, a not-for-profit organisation that provides free services to homeless people, 57% of the nations population are feeling extreme financial pressure. These huge numbers stretch throughout both men and women, Australian families with …

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Youth disproportionately impacted by homelessness: report

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As the country grapples with housing insecurity and homelessness, a new report reveals that youth are impacted disproportionately by the crisis. Today, Mission Australia released ‘The Unfair Divide’ youth homelessness survey showing 1 in ten people in both South Australia and across the nation, between the age of 15 to 19 years has experienced homelessness …

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Calls for Government to take Asylum Seekers more seriously

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Refugee advocates are urging the government to take the lives of asylum seekers more seriously. Social support for people seeking asylum was cut by 95 per cent, with successive Federal Governments forcing people seeking asylum further into poverty, sickness and homelessness. It comes as the Albanese government spent less than half of the nearly 37 …

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