The number of long-term homeless in Australia has risen by 25 percent. Productivity Commission figures are that 37,779 people experienced persistent homelessness in 2023-24, an increase of 26.3 per cent from 30,306 people in the same situation in 2019-20. Kate Colvin, CEO of Homelessness Australia, called the data "grim findings." "More Australians than ever are trapped in long-term homelessness, and even those who find housing are struggling to maintain it without adequate support," she said.
"Each day, an average of 208 people seek accommodation and are turned away empty-handed."
"Over the year, that amounts to 53,292 people — one in three of those needing accommodation — who received no housing assistance at all."
This is indeed a "grim" situation, but things are probably worse. "Persistent homelessness," is defined as those people who are homeless for more than seven months in a two-year period. The Australian Bureau of Statistic's definition of "homelessness" as not simply sleeping without a house or unit, but someone lacking a sense of security, privacy, or ongoing stability in their place of living. How many people in Australia face that sort of insecurity? There are no reasonable estimates I could find, but I dare say that most people renting, in shared accommodation, or having rooms with no private toilet of bathroom would fit this, making perhaps a significant portion of Australia, homeless. This is one facet of the Great Replacement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/grim-persistent-homelessness-figures-housing-crisis/104883838