Homelessness
‘Second-best solution’: Two security guards to bolster city’s safety patrols
Melbourne City Council has begun a trial of two security guards accompanying their officers enforcing anti-begging, drinking and drug-taking laws.
- Adam Carey
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‘I thought we’d look after people’: 60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians
Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians, and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.
- Rachel Eddie
‘If winds get above 80km/h, it will become unsafe to move’: Fears for city’s rough sleepers
Organisations say shelter needs to be set up for the region’s homeless population now.
- Courtney Kruk and Rosanna Ryan
Surging crime prompts Port Phillip Council to consider fining homeless
The idea of fining rough sleepers raised concerns from some councillors about making homelessness illegal and possibly breaching vulnerable citizens’ human rights.
- Tom Cowie
How a Queensland child died homeless and hungry after living out of a box
The boy’s death was among 70 highlighted in a report that reveals how children are slipping through a system that has “forgotten how to care”.
- Fraser Barton and William Davis
A $250,000 playground was installed in Footscray’s mall. It backfired
Nicholson Street is one of Australia’s oldest pedestrian malls. But traders say it was the wrong move in 2023 to install a playground because it became a magnet for antisocial behaviour.
- Sophie Aubrey
Taskforce to tackle crime in Brisbane’s homeless encampments
Crime and drug use at two of Brisbane’s biggest tent cities has prompted council to join forces with police to tackle “anti-social behaviour”.
- Emily Verdouw
- Opinion
- Renting
I’m a career woman with 25 years’ experience, yet found myself homeless
Recently, I read that middle-aged, single women were increasingly facing homelessness. I joked to a friend, “I’m going to become a statistic!” But it turned out to be no joke.
- Miriam Wallace
Prince of Wales: I talk to my children about homelessness – like my mother Diana did
She made sure we knew “the life outside palace walls thing was real, you know,” William says.
- India McTaggart
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