'Grim' numbers as Australians experiencing long-term homelessness rises by 25 per cent   :(


Feb 1 2025
ABC News

People sitting holding placards with signs about rent rises and housing affordability
Advocates say urgent action on housing is needed as the rate of people experiencing long-term homelessness has surged.

In short:
The number of Australians who are homeless long-term has risen by 25 per cent, new data shows.   :(

Advocates call the figures "grim findings" as the housing crisis continues across the country.

What's next?
The federal government has committed billions of dollars to fund and build more social and affordable housing across the country.


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The number of people experiencing long-term homelessness has surged by over 25 per cent, new data from the Productivity Commission shows.

Amid a housing shortage and cost-of-living crisis, the commission's report on government services showed 37,779 people experienced persistent homelessness in 2023-24.

The figure is an increase of 26.3 per cent from 30,306 people who lacked homes long term in 2019-20.

People who are homeless for more than seven months in a two-year period are defined as experiencing persistent homelessness, with more than one in five people who seek support services falling under the category.

Kate Colvin, CEO of Homelessness Australia, called the data "grim findings".

"More Australians than ever are trapped in long-term homelessness, and even those who find housing are struggling to maintain it without adequate support,” she said.

"Each day, an average of 208 people seek accommodation and are turned away empty-handed.   :(

"Over the year, that amounts to 53,292 people — one in three of those needing accommodation — who received no housing assistance at all."

Ms Colvin renewed the call for more funding into homelessness services, saying "sustained investment" was shown to work in helping people escape the cycle of homelessness.

More than 120,000 people were homeless in 2021 according to the last census, a figure that represents nearly 50 individuals out of every 10,000 people.




The government is under pressure to fund and build more social housing

The report showed most people at risk (80.9 per cent of the general population and 79 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) were able to avoid homelessness through support services or other means.

The ABS defines homelessness as not simply sleeping without a roof, but someone lacking a sense of security, privacy, or ongoing stability in their place of living.

Where is Victoria's Big Housing Build going?

A $5.3 billion fund — billed as the nation's largest-ever investment by a state government in social housing — was rolled out in Victoria four years ago. Now questions are being asked about where the money's being spent.

This includes primary homelessness — someone lacking a physical shelter — as well as secondary, being those who are forced to move between different types of accommodation for want of stability.

The federal government has committed to funding at least 55,000 social and affordable homes as part of a housing policy agenda, including a $10 billion investment fund that will use returns to build some of the promised houses.

The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024, released in December, described housing affordability as the critical factor for people seeking support with homelessness services.

Advocacy group Everybody’s Home spokesperson Maiy Azize said the monitor's report showed the housing crisis was directly fuelling the rise in people lacking safe and secure homes across low and middle-income groups.

"The housing crisis is driving a new wave of people seeking crisis support for the first time and is trapping many Australians in homelessness for longer periods," Ms Azize said.   :(

Minister for Housing and Homelessness Clare O'Neil has been contacted for comment.

I blame mass immigration.

It's insane to allow millions of people here when there is no housing for them.
It also puts pressure on: hospitals, schools roads and all infrastructure.

We now have as many as a dozen people living in one bedroom flats in many cases.

Aussies are living on the street and in cars and under bridges because they
can't afford the enormous price of rent.

Millions more to be here within a few years -
thanks Albo and all your socialist mates for ruining Australia.

Its not just under labor that this problem has started.  For years Australia has not built enough affordable and social homes.   :(

whiteknight wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 7:25am:

Its not just under labor that this problem has started.  For years Australia has not built enough affordable and social homes.   :(

I'm sorry to say -
with millions more immigrants on their way it's only going to get worse.
For those who voted Labor - you got what you wanted.

Could someone offer a reasonable and reasoned reason for all this massive influx of immigrants en masse?

WHY does Australia NEED them?

I've heard the official line - oh - we need people to take up the slack in the areas where Australians don't want to work any more given that Australia is now a massively affluent nation.... blah, blah, blah... yardle, yardle...

So they come here and sit in servos and such... get a fine education and take over our professions etc.... bring their 'equal qualifications' and ETHICS and become the new Doctor Deaths... you know the drill by now...

So, great example - (official line) 'We need more immigrants to take up the slack in the aged care sector given our aging population' - so ..... why then bring in entire extended families - with ALREADY AGING PEOPLE INCLUDED - to 'take up the slack'?

What kind of utter stupidity is that? 

Why have all those old people contributing to the 'crisis' in aged care - all those kids putting pressure on education and such - all those Third World 'stay at home mums' ..... along with the then 'growing need' for more and more 'affirmative action' so they feel all comfy and prosperous and won't run away back to Farkitsbadistan while Aussies rot in tent cities and under bridges...??????

I ask you!

Give me ONE good reason for this madness!!

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 11:25am:

Could someone offer a reasonable and reasoned reason for all this massive influx of immigrants en masse? WHY does Australia NEED them? I've heard the official line - oh - we need people to take up the slack in the areas where Australians don't want to work any more given that Australia is now a massively affluent nation.... blah, blah, blah... yardle, yardle... So they come here and sit in servos and such... get a fine education and take over our professions etc.... bring their 'equal qualifications' and ETHICS and become the new Doctor Deaths... you know the drill by now... So, great example - (official line) 'We need more immigrants to take up the slack in the aged care sector given our aging population' - so ..... why then bring in entire extended families - with ALREADY AGING PEOPLE INCLUDED - to 'take up the slack'? What kind of utter stupidity is that?  Why have all those old people contributing to the 'crisis' in aged care - all those kids putting pressure on education and such - all those Third World 'stay at home mums' ..... along with the then 'growing need' for more and more 'affirmative action' so they feel all comfy and prosperous and won't run away back to Farkitsbadistan while Aussies rot in tent cities and under bridges...?????? I ask you! Give me ONE good reason for this madness!!

Albo has gone completely insane.

He should be removed and put in an asylum.

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 11:25am:

Could someone offer a reasonable and reasoned reason for all this massive influx of immigrants en masse? WHY does Australia NEED them? I've heard the official line - oh - we need people to take up the slack in the areas where Australians don't want to work any more given that Australia is now a massively affluent nation.... blah, blah, blah... yardle, yardle... So they come here and sit in servos and such... get a fine education and take over our professions etc.... bring their 'equal qualifications' and ETHICS and become the new Doctor Deaths... you know the drill by now... So, great example - (official line) 'We need more immigrants to take up the slack in the aged care sector given our aging population' - so ..... why then bring in entire extended families - with ALREADY AGING PEOPLE INCLUDED - to 'take up the slack'? What kind of utter stupidity is that?  Why have all those old people contributing to the 'crisis' in aged care - all those kids putting pressure on education and such - all those Third World 'stay at home mums' ..... along with the then 'growing need' for more and more 'affirmative action' so they feel all comfy and prosperous and won't run away back to Farkitsbadistan while Aussies rot in tent cities and under bridges...?????? I ask you! Give me ONE good reason for this madness!!

The labor party believes those they allow in will reward them with votes.

Both labor and the lnp are also desperate to increase Australia population so that they will be taken seriously on the world stage.

Nothing hurts an Australian politician  ego more than being sidelined in world politics because we are a isolated country of little strategic value with a tiny population.

Once again. I told yas.
During the Pandemic I said we would have a Great Inflation.
Just like 100 years or so we had a Pandemic with a Great Depression and of course a World War. Everything happens in threes.
The Economy hasn't dropped this time, it's inflated out of reach for many.

Jasin wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2025 at 6:14am:

Once again. I told yas. During the Pandemic I said we would have a Great Inflation. Just like 100 years or so we had a Pandemic with a Great Depression and of course a World War. Everything happens in threes. The Economy hasn't dropped this time, it's inflated out of reach for many.

And what were the homeless called back then?
Here’s a clue…

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Under the shade of a Coolibah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boil….

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Sophia wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2025 at 10:31am:

Jasin wrote on Feb 2nd, 2025 at 6:14am: Once again. I told yas. During the Pandemic I said we would have a Great Inflation. Just like 100 years or so we had a Pandemic with a Great Depression and of course a World War. Everything happens in threes. The Economy hasn't dropped this time, it's inflated out of reach for many. And what were the homeless called back then? Here’s a clue… Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boil….

Argh, aye, and was driven to suicide by the peelers at the behest of the king in a grass castle ... the squatter and man of substance... e' took that lend from the Abos and now no swagman, no matter how jolly, is having a lend of HIS jumbucks for dinner ..... that man be stealin' my jumbuck!!

Australia - the Egalitarian society complete with classes .....