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.
Charities will be out and about on Christmas day providing meals and company to those struggling.
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.
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.
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.
The Community Housing Industry Association concludes 3360 properties discounted for low-income households will revert to market rates by 2026.
Women over the age of 55 are the largest growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness.
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.
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.
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.
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.