Part of the tent city which highlighted homelessness. Photo: Steve O Brien
Kelly Hansen, CEO of NOVA, a Newcastle-based accommodation service for women and children, believes homelessness is an emerging humanitarian crisis.
Launching a “tent city” in Foreshore Park on March 29 to highlight the problem, Hansen said the current housing crisis was foreseen.
NOVA initiated the action with other agencies from Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and Maitland.
A report commissioned by the Australian Council of Social Services from Equity Economics found last year that poverty and homelessness would become the “new pandemic”, affecting both those surviving on Centrelink payments and low incomes but also the middle class.
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