Lance Bath has been living in a tent in an inner-city park for 10 weeks. And every week, more people join him there.
At 42, carpenter Lance Bath is homeless for the first time in his life.It's the second highest increase nationally, after Western AustraliaHe puts it down to a bad "set of circumstances" which stacked up within a month, and put him and his wife on the street."They gave us two hours [to leave]. So my wife and I sort of went from having somewhere stable to stay to 'where do we go?'," he said.The ranks of Queensland's homeless are growing.
Homelessness has risen by 8 per cent nationally since 2017, according to the report's author, University of News South Wales' Professor Hal Pawson.In regional Queensland, the increase is "even more dramatic", up 29 per cent in four years, he said. The report found in 2020-21, the number of people with "very high need" for social housing was 37 per cent higher than the system could accommodate.
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