Homelessness

The housing crisis has meant many people have had to think outside the box. These two single mums found a stable home with the help of other women in the community.

The Adelaide mother was told to "manifest a house" or consider living in a tent by a SA Housing Trust public servant.

A quarter of Australia's homeless are young people. While Chloe Hume and Trent Kiely are among them, a caravan by a river has offered them refuge from housing stress.

This New Zealand-born woman has had some tough times. But things began to change when she started meeting with her homeless friends at a park to cook lunch.

Margarita Aunei-Stowers was sleeping on the streets of Fortitude Valley when she decided to start cooking lunches for her fellow homeless people. Those picnics in the park became the charity, Giv3 Our Time.

As Alice Springs approaches its third and potentially final night of a snap 72-hour curfew, frontline services say they're deeply concerned for those sleeping rough.

A Tasmanian homelessness charity has removed two mobile trailers containing sleeping pods for people sleeping rough after being told it didn't have permission to put them there, in the latest tussle with the local council. 

Adelaide shivers through its coldest morning in years according to the BOM, with temperatures dropping below zero degrees Celsius in some parts of the city overnight.

Both major parties promised at the last election to end no-fault evictions, but new legislation is yet to be put forward.

Fifteen months after both major parties in NSW promised to end no-fault evictions, the government is yet to put forward new legislation, as more renters are pushed out of their homes amid a rental crisis.  

Without anywhere safe and secure to call home, Hailey felt like she didn't have a future. Her grades crashed and her mental health suffered. She's not alone. 

Parts of Australia are recording their coldest temperatures in more than a decade, and people sleeping rough are bearing the brunt more than ever. 

When Rob Rankine saw the local nursing home sitting empty, he decided to do something about it. Now 18 people, including employee Mia Harris, have a place to call home. 

Advocates say youth foyers are the kind of accommodation Australia sorely needs, with rental vacancy rates falling below 1 per cent in some big cities, and with more than 40,000 younger Australians needing to access homelessness services each year.

After experiencing homelessness, siblings Annabelle and Sunny Johnson started collecting the neighbourhood's bottles and cans to buy a block of land. It's a lofty goal but their mum is proof that it's possible to achieve after buying a home on her own.

Perth's embattled Safe Night Space for vulnerable women will reopen after a six-month closure, putting an end to a tense political row between the state government and Perth Lord Mayor.

Pet ownership can offer a wealth of positives for many people, but for those experiencing homelessness, the costs can be insurmountable.

This year's annual homelessness fundraiser in which SA business and community leaders sleep rough for one night has a deeply personal relevance for Angelique Boileau, whose mother was imprisoned in post-war Hungary. 

Women escaping domestic violence often find themselves homeless, and the organisations assisting them are under increasing strain. This survivor is now returning the favour, volunteering for an organisation that once helped her. 

This year’s federal budget has included ‘game changing’ funding for the homelessness sector in NT, a seven-fold increase of more than $42 million.

Despite having the greatest need for funding in Australia, with a homelessness rate 12 times the national average, the NT has persistently not received enough Commonwealth money because of its small population. But in May, that changed.

Inside a discreet character home, women are making gift boxes in secrecy. It's their only chance to work and not be found by violent ex-partners.

Overseas travellers and itinerant workers say they were encouraged to travel to Lismore and squat in flood-affected houses via an online network created during a Tasmanian festival.

For Pay Day, demographer and social researcher Dr Liz Allen shares the shame that comes with living in poverty, the secrets of survival, and how this experience "grants perspective that can never be bought".

Businesses in regional Western Australia are calling for increased housing availability as employers and community groups look to build accommodation to attract staff.