In about 10 days’ time, a team of eight street soccer players, brought together by backgrounds in homelessness and disadvantage, will represent Australia at the 2023 Homeless World Cup. Among them is Caity, the only Canberran, and the only woman on the team.
Climbing homelessness rates have prompted calls for more action to solve Australia's housing crisis as crossbenchers continue to negotiate with the federal government on its signature housing policy.
The latest Census data reveals 387 children were sleeping rough on Census night in 2021, as the overall number of people experiencing homelessness surged by five per cent.
The ACT Government is spending more on homelessness than ever before but less on social housing; homelessness worsens while the number of public housing dwellings falls, according to the Australian Government Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services data published this week.
Local woman Di Deane, 71, wants to do what she can to help Canberra women experiencing homelessness, so she’s swimming 70 lengths of NextGen’s pool this weekend.
