Council members in Melbourne's inner west shed tears during an emotional meeting on Tuesday night,urging state intervention after a 30-year-old rezoning decision abruptly evicts up to 100 people from their homes in an industrial estate.
Nine parliamentary inquiries are still awaiting a response,including a critical report recommending solutions into the state’s homelessness crisis - now 22 months overdue.
Economists say rents are soaring because the supply of homes is not keeping up with demand – adding to people’s existing financial pressures.
Experts say a decade of bail reforms has led to vulnerable people serving time they otherwise might not have for minor crimes,contributing to a cycle of poverty,homelessness and incarceration.
City of Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore said she had been told demand for free food was now far higher than during the COVID pandemic.
Five of the 10 electorates where homelessness grew the fastest were regional. In South Barwon,homelessness jumped 465% over five years,driven by a 10-fold increase in boarding house residents.
But he’s finally found somewhere to call home - and this residence in Sydney is not like any other.
People like Priyanka are the group of Australians with the fastest growing rate of homelessness.
Queensland’s new housing minister has promised to work quickly to ease the state’s accommodation crisis.
Business Sydney chief Paul Nicolaou is leading the fundraising ladder for the Vinnies CEO Sleepout.
Using the Pinkenba quarantine centre might aid some people but it falls well short of the needs of Brisbane’s homeless,one of the state’s main housing bodies says.