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Posted May 12, 2023

ABC News: For LGBTQIA+ young people, the housing market is even tighter

Eden feels safer on the street than a hostel, where they must identify as a man or woman for a bed. The non-binary 24-year-old has been sleeping in a Brisbane CBD shopfront since January. The city’s rental market is tighter than it has ever been – but for people who are gender diverse, the options are […]

Posted May 04, 2023

ABC News: ‘Cascade effect’ pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records.

For Rhiannon*, the last three years have been a first-hand tour through the housing crisis. Forced to leave home at 17, she’s moved between crisis hotel accommodation, transitional housing and couch-surfing after a share house didn’t work out. At her lowest point, she was spending the night in front of a shop in Brisbane’s CBD. […]

Posted Apr 06, 2023

COURIER MAIL: ‘Unprecedented’ spike in youth homelessness in Queensland

Advocates have pleaded with the state government to come up with a specialised solution for young homeless Queenslanders, who are being violently and sexually abused in crisis accommodation designed for adults. Young homeless Queenslanders are being sexually and violently assaulted in mixed-dorm crisis accommodation designed for adults as advocates flag an “unprecedented” spike in youth […]

ABC News: Children in Queensland’s foster and residential care system are living on the streets of Brisbane.

Hundreds of children under Queensland government care are in ‘other living arrangements’, for many that means homelessness Self-placing is the term the Queensland government use when a child under its care leaves a foster, kinship or residential care placement. Others use the term homeless. Where do self-placing children go? Pam Barker and her team at […]

Posted Mar 22, 2023

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ABC News: For LGBTQIA+ young people, the housing market is even tighter

ABC News: ‘Cascade effect’ pushing people into homelessness after rental prices, property scarcity hit records.

COURIER MAIL: ‘Unprecedented’ spike in youth homelessness in Queensland

ABC News: Children in Queensland’s foster and residential care system are living on the streets of Brisbane.

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