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NSW continues to grapple with a homelessness crisis, with about 68,000 people seeking assistance from homelessness services annually over the past two years. New figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, reveal that 67,900 people sought help for homelessness between July 2023 and June 2024, closely matching the 68,400 recorded the previous year.
“Every day, frontline workers witness the human cost of a system stretched to its limits.” Alarmingly, about half of those seeking assistance over the past two years were already homeless when they reached out, a proportion that rose from 50 per cent last year to 53 per cent this year — a trend Rowe described as “deeply troubling”. Indigenous Australians remain disproportionately affected, accounting for 33 per cent of those seeking help in NSW, compared with the national average of 29 per cent.
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