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Homelessness system buckling under pressure of demand

Homelessness services are experiencing a surge in people needing help, with a marked increase in women and their children reaching out for support.

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Climate disasters are pushing people into homelessness – but there’s a lot we can do about it

Almost half of all Australian properties are at risk of bushfire, while 17,500 face risk of coastal erosion. By 2030, more than 3 million will face riverine flood risk.

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Extra 10,000 Australians becoming homeless each month, up 22% in three years, report says

Almost half were couch surfing or living in short-term accommodation, UNSW and Homelessness Australia say

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Housing plea as millions more at risk of being homeless

A huge surge in people being on the brink of homelessness has led to renewed calls for more social housing to be built for people at risk.

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Access to wheels for kids with no place to call home to get a licence

Path 2 Change to help homeless teens obtain a driver's licence

Newcastle Herald

Thor star Chris Hemsworth says we can all be heroes for the homeless

The actor is making a difference for the homeless in his beloved Byron Bay.

Newcastle Herald

Alarming new report shows shocking extent of child homelessness

'How can a parent keep their child safe if they're living in their car?'

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'National shame': kids facing life on couches, in tents

For many of the 125,000 Australian children without stable housing, a life of disadvantage, crime and poor health outcomes await without intervention.

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Youth on welfare 'pushed' into homelessness

Many teens receiving welfare are ending up homeless as they continue to spend more than three quarters of their income on rent, a report has found.

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Pasquale Giorgio asked for help while sleeping rough in Surfers Paradise. The next day he died in a police van

A lack of available housing combined with a gap between policing and the health system can have fatal consequences, experts say

The Guardian - AU

Weekly rent prices soar to new record for Aussies

Australians are being smashed in a cost of living crisis with record weekly rent prices, as homelessness services experience soaring demand.

AAP

Support groups had to turn more homeless away in 2023

The peak body for homelessness support says members have reported more incidences of turning people away in 2023.

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'Broken system': rents skyrocket 32 per cent in three years

Typical Hunter rents are up $134 in three years.

Newcastle Herald

Homeless services under pressure in housing crisis

More homeless people are seeking support when they've already been forced onto the streets, in data labelled "stark and alarming" by Homelessness Australia.

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Living rough: 40,000 young people locked out of housing

As the housing crisis continues and rents rise, a coalition of housing and homelessness organisations is calling for specific measures to help young people.

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'Duty to assist' key to ending homelessness

Homelessness Australia says its possible to end homelessness within a decade if Australia can muster the political and financial will.

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More than 1,600 Australians pushed into homelessness each month as housing crisis deepens, report finds

Exclusive: housing organisations call for increased renter protections as homelessness services struggle with surge in demand

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Housing advocacy groups fear Labor-Greens clash could scuttle $10bn fund

Adam Bandt warns it will be ‘terrible’ if Labor forces vote on bill, as campaigners urge it to renegotiate

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Calls to support worst-off Australians surviving on $13 a day

Australian students are trying to scrape by on just $13 a day as welfare payments fail to keep pace with the cost of living, new analysis shows. A report

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Struggling university students scraping by on $13 a day

University students in rental accommodation have less than $15 a day for food, medicine and travel according to the results of a new analysis.

The Guardian - AU

Students left with $13 a day as youth allowance falls behind rent rises, analysis finds

Homelessness Australia report shows that after paying rent young people have little money to cover food, transport and utilities

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Homelessness Australia calls for increased support for young people in federal budget

The peak advocacy body for homeless services is calling on the federal government to increase support payments for renters in next month's budget.

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Christmas 'nightmare' for job seekers

Welfare recipients may be cut off from their payments during the holiday period over a "malicious" government program labelled a "nightmare before Christmas."

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s hard coming home to a tent’: the rise of Australia’s working homeless

People with jobs and families will be seeing out Christmas in camping grounds and motels, as experts warn of a new kind of crisis

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Can we solve Australia's housing crisis? Ambitious plan launched to eradicate rental stress and lower homeless rate

Homelessness Australia launches an ambitious plan to solve the housing crisis in Australia.

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