StreetSmartAustralia
@StreetSmartAust
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Action against homelessness. We believe no one should be without a safe and secure place to call home.
Australia
Joined March 2009
Why #homelessness isn't a topic of conversation when friends Martin and Kim catch up https://t.co/mMcXhYToaS via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
Martin and Kim are running buddies with very different backgrounds, but that difference doesn't get in their way.
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#Homelessness Australia CEO: 'it's worse than it's ever been'
abc.net.au
You've heard a lot about the ongoing cost of living and housing pressures plaguing Australians, and there's little sign the housing market is easing.
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This summer too many families are not camping for a holiday. They’re camping because they have no home. #Homelessness ‘is worse than it's ever been’. @HomelessnessAus
https://t.co/iNr9aQccWI via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
You've heard a lot about the ongoing cost of living and housing pressures plaguing Australians, and there's little sign the housing market is easing.
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Geraldton the second WA location to achieve measurable reduction in #homelessness over six-month period
thewest.com.au
Geraldton has made a mammoth step towards eradicating rough sleeping, becoming the second location in WA to record a 20 per cent reduction for six consecutive months amid a housing crisis.
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In the new Poverty and Inequality Partnership report, 3/4 of people we surveyed agree that poverty could be solved with the right systems and policies in place. 76% believe the incomes of people earning the least are too low. #RaiseTheRateForGood
https://t.co/2xEPRbEshJ
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Homelessness services have to make devastating choices when resources can’t stretch to everyone needing help. Almost 300 people per day turned away from homelessness help #MYEFO
abc.net.au
Every day, hundreds of people battling homelessness have their calls for help go unanswered, with support services stretched beyond capacity.
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Homelessness Australia calls on government for funding support amid the end of the National Housing and #Homelessness Agreement https://t.co/kSB4STZnb0 via @newscomauHQ
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Families and young people are becoming the face of Queensland’s #homelessness crisis https://t.co/6YJ96MJgqg via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
Single mum Jasmine Sloane has been homeless since her landlord put up the rent a month ago. She's part of a disturbing new trend in Queensland's housing crisis, with a growing number of families...
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Increased demand for homelessness services is pushing services to breaking point. People squeezed out of rentals urgently need additional funding in #MYEFO to escape homelessness
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Streetsmart helps us make the difference between connecting older homeless people with housing, and helping them to feel like they've arrived in a new home, with some basic necessities like food and bedding. Massive thanks @StreetSmartAust
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More than 500 Queenslanders over 80 years of age waiting for public housing after being priced out of rentals #homelessness
https://t.co/faZzhWUdA7 via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
Retirees and aged pensioners have to choose between leaving cities they have lived in for decades or becoming homeless amid a worsening rental crisis.
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Australian housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing our society | Alan Kohler
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Sydney housing crisis: Airbnb review to target 90,000 homes
smh.com.au
The NSW government says there are thousands of homes that sit empty for most of the year which should be on the long-term rental market.
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Community housing organisation and StreetSmart grant recipients, Servants, providing programs beyond housing including bee keeping ... #homelessness
https://t.co/YZIqS1G7qZ via @YouTube
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When governments could be handing out hot potatoes, but instead choose to use the song as torture. If we want to #endhomelessness, we need investment in Public and Community housing.
sbs.com.au
A Western Australia council will stop playing a Wiggles song it was using to drive homeless people away from a public space. Some say music is just one of many ways local governments attempt to do...
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Millionaire Builds 99 Tiny Homes to Cut Homelessness in His Community–He Even Provides Jobs On Site for Them
goodnewsnetwork.org
He has invested $4 million dollars of his own money on the project to build 99 homes, and he's currently three-quarters of the way there.
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people experiencing #homelessness are 16 times more likely to die suddenly, eye-opening study finds
bigissue.com
Homeless people are at much greater risk of dying due to heart attacks than the rest of the population, according to a San Francisco study.
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Australia in ‘the midst of a food security crisis’ as 3.7m households struggle to buy enough to eat
theguardian.com
Almost 350,000 additional households experienced food insecurity in the past year, according to latest Foodbank survey
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More than 122,000 people were #homeless on Census night 2021 - 1 in 4 were children under 18. Read the facts on our #housingcrisis and proposed solutions in our #APW23
https://t.co/51V2qNK4bY
#EndChildPoverty
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