Gimme Shelter: Living life in a dog box for Adelaide’s homeless
As the housing crisis worsens, desperate SA community members who can’t find a home are spending their days in dark, hot storage boxes and walking the city streets at night.
Rental Crisis
Huge housing overhaul to get smaller families out of big homes
Sweeping changes would allow a new form of ‘co-living’, smaller apartments and six-storey retirement villages under a plan to address SA’s housing crisis.
15,000 homes for northern Adelaide under new plan
Dry Creek’s salt fields will be turned into a master-planned community with a “minimum” of 15,000 homes under a push by the state government.
Escape to Burnside: Affordable housing for blue-chip suburbs
Affordable homes would be built in Adelaide’s most expensive suburbs – and developers required to offer more cheaper homes – under new plans.
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Cruel bureaucratic blow: Family denied critical housing after bungle
A woman and her two sons with severe autism says she is stuck in inadequate housing because of a critical computer bungle.
Thousands of new homes planned for mega former oil refinery site
Housing plans for a 230ha former oil refinery in Adelaide’s southwest will be unveiled by Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Vacant trust homes list grows as more found than officially claimed
The list of vacant homes in SA that could be occupied by people doing it tough has grown more than officially reported.
1450 vacant SA public houses but no place for rough sleepers to go
A Housing Trust resident has told of being surrounded by empty units, some being vacant up to several years while SA battlers are doing it tough sleeping on the streets.
‘Grateful’: From homeless and hopeless to happy and housed
Six months ago, Phillip Nancarrow found himself homeless at the age of 74. Today, he’s planting the lawn at his new home. Here is his story.
‘Heartless’: Homeless mother’s desperate plea for support
A mother of three says that after 12 years on the public housing list and months in a cramped room, she worries a “heartless” system will evict her and her kids at a moment’s notice.
‘I was afraid’: Why mother and son feared eviction from DV shelter
An Adelaide woman says the way she was treated when she first landed in emergency accommodation led to feel worried about being immediately evicted from the shelter she went to “to heal”.
Homeless women abiding ‘cruel’ requirements to keep emergency accommodation
Homeless women say they are being forced to attend multiple housing inspections a week or risk losing their emergency accommodation, as part of requirements deemed as “cruel and unattainable”.
Dying for a home: ‘Unacceptable’ housing waitlist deaths revealed
A staggering number of South Australians have died while waiting for public and community housing over the past four years – and many of them had spent years on the waitlist.
Living on a couch or floor but SA Housing says they’re ‘housed’
Alexandrina Campbell says she spent five years living on a couch but was told by SA Housing Trust that she was “housed” and so would have to wait 15 years to get public housing.
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