‘Frustrating for some,but safer for more’:Social services sigh with relief behind WA border

‘Frustrating for some,but safer for more’:Social services sigh with relief behind WA border

COVID-19 deaths have been almost four times higher among people in the lowest socioeconomic group,says Anglicare as it fields more than 100 relief calls a day.

  • byEmma Young

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‘The issue isn’t homelessness,it’s loneliness’:Charities to spread Christmas cheer

‘The issue isn’t homelessness,it’s loneliness’:Charities to spread Christmas cheer

Charities will be out and about on Christmas day providing meals and company to those struggling.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
‘They don’t treat you like a problem child’:Foyers a fix for youth homelessness

‘They don’t treat you like a problem child’:Foyers a fix for youth homelessness

Facilities at three TAFE campuses help people aged 16 to 24 who want to study but can’t live at home. On Wednesday,the youth foyers program will receive a funding boost.

  • byJewel Topsfield
Drop in homelessness amid pandemic ‘social experiment’ spurs push for payments boost

Drop in homelessness amid pandemic ‘social experiment’ spurs push for payments boost

Homelessness is now at higher levels than before the COVID-19 pandemic,illustrating the immediate benefits of boosting income support last year,according to new analysis of federal figures.

  • byMichael Fowler
‘I hope it was a wake-up call’:Welfare service honoured for intervention at Hambleton House

‘I hope it was a wake-up call’:Welfare service honoured for intervention at Hambleton House

Jane Barnes of Wintringham hopes the neglect exposed by a COVID-19 outbreak at an Albert Park care home will lead to change in the sector.

  • byJewel Topsfield
NSW to lose 3360 affordable homes:See which suburbs get hit the hardest

NSW to lose 3360 affordable homes:See which suburbs get hit the hardest

The Community Housing Industry Association concludes 3360 properties discounted for low-income households will revert to market rates by 2026.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘My life just went downhill’:New housing for older women facing homelessness

‘My life just went downhill’:New housing for older women facing homelessness

Women over the age of 55 are the largest growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness.

  • byLucy Cormack
Watch this show before you utter these four words

Watch this show before you utter these four words

You hear people say “just get a job” all the time. As an MP,I’d never experienced the pain of failing to find work. A new TV experiment changed that.

  • byJenny Leong MP
Evicted for a yoga studio:The dark side of Byron Bay’s property boom

Evicted for a yoga studio:The dark side of Byron Bay’s property boom

Longtime Byron Bay resident Fintan Callaghan and his two teenagers wound up homeless when they had to leave their rental unit and were unable to find other accommodation.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
House price growth three times faster than wages over four decades

House price growth three times faster than wages over four decades

The price of a typical house in Sydney has multiplied by 17 times in the past 40 years,revealing that wage growth has failed to keep pace with the housing boom.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Martin Place ‘mayor’ and homelessness activist dies

Martin Place ‘mayor’ and homelessness activist dies

Lanz Priestley was known as the leader of the “tent city” in Sydney’s Martin Place in 2017,when he and dozens of other homeless people were evicted from the site.

  • byDaniella White