Deputy Mayor John Collins said the charges should be waived because it was a not-for-profit group that already operated in the region. Division 1 councillor Jan Clifford agreed, saying homelessness and partial homelessness was a great issue in our region . Particularly for older people and particularly for older women, she said. For older women homelessness is the fastest growing demographic in Australia. Through no fault of their own, it may have been through a marriage break-up or there was one case that came across my desk was a lady whose husband and her were caretakers on a property, and he passed away and she had nowhere to go.