The newest victims of Australia's homelessness crisis
The newest victims of Australia's homelessness crisis
Mary is a frail pensioner who is living out of her car after losing her rental property.
This isn’t the retirement that Mary had dreamed of.
The former midwife spent years living on a cattle station with her husband on the north-western edge of Australia - outside her window, the vast and ruggedly beautiful Kimberley region.
Now, though, the frail 71-year-old spends most of her days and nights in her battered car. Her current view is the public toilet block of a Perth shopping centre.
Mary is not her real name. She does not want people she knows to find out she is living like this.
She is one of the roughly 122,000 people who are homeless in Australia on any given night, according to data from the country’s bureau of statistics.
A recent government report says that 40% of renters on low income are now at risk of joining that cohort.
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In recent years, record house prices, underinvestment in social housing, a general shortage of homes and drastically climbing rents, have left much of the nation’s growing population struggling to find a place to live.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Devil's advocate here. While I feel sorry for the people struggling with the housing crisis, it always puzzles me when the so called boomer generation is having problems with a living situation. Back then it wasn't that hard to buy a house that by today's standards would be enough to support retirement. I have a feeling that the Media are cherry picking sad stories to get the public's attention (aka clickbait).
Well they did give some statistics as well. My feeling was they were including statistics along with a story to give a more human connection to the issue which you can't really do by just presenting the cold numbers. Do you think something is missing here that should have been included to give a more complete view of the issue?
Sure, in general people had an easier time buying a house in 1960, but that doesn't account for individual hardship, and this attitude certainly doesn't help people who need a place to live right now.
It's amazing how people who blame boomers for all the evil in the world, are so sympathetic for other boomers who weren't so lucky.