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.
“There is not enough housing in the ACT, but just housing isn’t the answer,” says local homeless services provider, Christine Moore, who seeks to draw attention to the link between mental illness...
Without the Early Morning Centre, homeless man Roger Smith (not his real name) tells me, those in his predicament would be much worse off.
The EMC is a community hub supporting Canberra people...
A new gallery installation and hotel which challenges the excess of unused space in a time of rising homelessness has opened its doors in Canberra. On Friday 2 September, Hotel Mottainai officially launched in a vacant office space in the London Court Building on London Circuit in City West.
SANE’s CEO, Rachel Green, reflects on the need to take a systems approach to tackling homelessness to improve Australia’s worsening mental health situation
Nearly one in every 20 young people aged between 15 and 19 living in the ACT experienced homelessness for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new study conducted by Mission Australia.
With just seven sleeps to go until the 2022 Vinnies CEO Sleepout, Antonia ‘Toni’ Marzulli, newly minted CEO of Synergy Group, sat down with CW in the lead up to her first foray into the annual fundraising event.
