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Regional Australia is experiencing rising homelessness as rents skyrocket, vacancy rates plummet and people on low incomes find themselves unable to afford a home.

Regional Australia is experiencing rising homelessness as rents skyrocket, vacancy rates plummet and people on low incomes find themselves unable to afford a home.

A government program housed a small number of former rough sleepers in “inappropriate” luxury buildings during the pandemic, a review has found.

The unique design of the building is tailored to caring for women and families, giving access to skills classes, healthcare and legal practitioners that are on-site, with permanent and specially designed rooms for ongoing consultative care. The project aims to reset the thinking of what Australian social housing can be and questions the assumptions of what people need most from apartment living.

Hannah Fox knows all too well the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Melbourne after RISING festival, which she co-curates, was hit two years running.

Partnership assists more than 5,000 people

There's just something particularly delightful about night markets.

The pandemic created an extraordinary stimulus for ‘outside-the-box’ policy innovations. Rapidly enacted and large-scale emergency responses challenged wisdom about what was politically and economically feasible. But such interventions failed to recognise or address fundamental housing system flaws, Prof. Pawson says.

Despite COVID-19 outbreaks and repeated warnings that poor quality and unsafe crisis accommodation is exacerbating trauma, homeless Victorians continue to be sent to rooming houses due to a lack of other options.

During lockdown, hundreds of homeless people in Melbourne were moved into hotels. But what will happen to them now?