Study finds lack of available social housing and unaffordable private rentals mean people entering crisis accommodation have no pathways out
Emergency accommodation is often unsafe, inappropriate, of poor quality and compounds the trauma of people experiencing housing crisis, a new report has found.
“The whole housing system is in crisis and that feeds the crisis in the homelessness service system,” the report’s lead researcher, Deb Batterham, said. The lack of crisis accommodation was worse in regional and rural areas, the report said, as it was generally concentrated in major towns and cities.people in housing crisis were travelling extraordinary distances to access this homelessness support
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