Life's circumstances made this group homeless, but they're finding a family in their bush camp, overstaying their site restrictions as rental prices keep rising.
Deep in a state forest, a transient group of people who are homeless for various reasons are camped with nowhere else to go as rental prices rise.
Peter says that, by offering his story to his fellow campers and listening to theirs, he has found a way to blend in and feels a sense of community."I needed space, I needed time, and people here are in similar circumstances, because of the fires, the floods and COVID." Even though he lives close by, he cannot see the child, so he now avoids the street where she lives when passing through the town.Peter ended up in this campground because he couldn't afford a rental on his pension while continuing to pay off other debts.
He has been living here for six weeks after leaving a private rental where, he says, the landlord had some mental health issues."I went to public housing," Mick says. "They put me up the list because of the stoke, but it's still a two-year waiting list." "I've got three doonas, I've got the fire, I've got my hot water bottle, which is my little dog," he says.
"We're just stuck," he says. "If there were more campsites open, we probably wouldn't be in this situation.Forestry Corporation's Sandra Madeley says there has been an increase in longer-term campers within Coopernook Forest due to its proximity to the highway and regional centres of Taree and Port Macquarie.
"We do community cooking and play a bit of [euchre] and keep ourselves a bit amused, go and get firewood ... take the dogs for a run on the beach," he says."I wouldn't feel good in a motel or in a flash place. I'd feel out of place," he says.He maintains a positive attitude, saying there are a lot of people worse off than them."We don't have power so, if you don't have it, you don't miss it.
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