Homeless Charity Orange Sky is seeing “more and more” people due to cost-of-living and rental pressures, says Orange Sky Co-Founder and CEO Lucas Pratchett.
Homeless charity organisation Orange Sky is seeing “more and more” people due to cost-of-living and rental pressures, says Orange Sky Co-Founder and CEO Lucas Pratchett.
“COVID supercharged so many things for so many people, with things like the rental crisis and the cost-of-living crisis, there is so much more demand on services,” Mr Pratchett told Sky News Australia. “We’re seeing more and more people come down who would have never thought they would use our service before.
“The demand for our services is absolutely going through the roof and we’re just doing the best that we can to respond to the rising demand.”
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