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Long-term homelessness grows amid housing cost crunch

Calls are mounting for more funding for homelessness services as data shows the number of people without a home long-term jumped.

AAP

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

The Guardian - AU

‘Deaths of needless poverty and despair’: homelessness report reveals surge in fatalities in Australia

‘Staggering’ annual death toll of 1,500 revealed in 10-year analysis ‘a shocking indictment on our society’, expert says

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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.

AAP

Alarming new report shows shocking extent of child homelessness

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

The Canberra Times

'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.

AAP

‘I’m scared I’m going to die’: a rising number of Australians are sleeping rough as the housing crisis bites

The message is clear: there’s not enough beds, funding or staff to care for the thousands of people sleeping in tents or in their cars every night

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Groups call for federal action on youth homelessness

More than 80 organisations from across Australia have called on the federal government to address youth homelessness as the budget approaches.

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'Time for leadership': Homelessness NSW calls for $10b housing fix

'It's kind of shocking what will happen if we don't step up.'

Newcastle Herald

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

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.

AAP

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

Typical Hunter rents are up $134 in three years.

Newcastle Herald

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.

AAP

'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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Newcastle Herald

'Opportunity missed': Housing providers say budget offers little to fix Hunter crisis

Housing advocates want direct government investment sooner rather than later.

The New Daily

Long-term rental reform needed for affordability crisis

An increase to rental assistance has been welcomed by the nation's peak housing bodies, but they warn the measure doesn't go far enough to manage the crisis.

ABC News

'Cascade effect' pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records

With the national rental vacancy rate at a record low for a fourth straight month, welfare workers say they are seeing more and more people being pushed into homelessness.

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Labor MPs condemn ‘discriminatory’ plan to increase jobseeker only for those over 55 in budget

Concerns growing that any changes to rental assistance will also fall along generational divides

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‘Emergency situation’: Homelessness ramps up amid rental crisis

The rental market has never been less affordable, and experts warn the lack of options will has already led to a spike in homelessness.

AAP

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

ABC News

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.

ABC News

Labor social housing bill not enough to address older women homelessness spike, advocates say

Advocates say the federal government's housing plan is a good first step but is "insufficient" to help women aged 55 and older who are facing the highest rate of homelessness in a decade.

ABC News

Rents rising at slower pace despite 'record high' 10pc surge last year, CoreLogic says

Australian landlords passed on their biggest-ever rent increases in 2022, and the cost-of-living situation is unlikely to ease significantly for tenants in coming months.

AAP

Demand for homelessness support soars

Thousands more Australians face homelessness as rising rents and cost of living pressure take their toll.

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