With council and a police escort visiting a Wagga Wagga park a few days ago to evict homeless campers, the reality for Matt — just trying to keep warm in a tent — will likely soon get harder.
As the housing crisis tightens its grip on the nation, the reality for some is just trying to keep warm in a tent."There were a lot of bad decisions before I ended up homeless — I got kicked out of my flat, I went to a refuge [and] basically it was no good in there, so I bought a tent and come here," he said."Getting firewood ready, getting the fire lit, trying to survive basically. Going to recycle cans to make money.
"At the moment too, the times — with corona[virus], the shortage of housing with the low job vacancies — like these are all contributing factors to it all," he said. "It's hard enough with a full-time job in a house being able to cover some of this, but living in a tent — it definitely isn't ideal but it's a roof over our head."
A lack of affordable housing stock and rental availability often at one per cent or lower nationwide has been driving a major housing crisis for some time now. Apart from pleas to free up holiday and short-stay housing, governments at all levels are struggling to keep up with demand for public housing, while the market pushes private housing even higher.
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