More than 30,000 households are on a waiting list, with many spending months and years living in limbo
– on the state’s housing register, a figure which has grown by 78% since 2018.
The 43-year-old has spent most of that time in supported accommodation – a tough environment for a man like Tull. Since he was hit by a truck in the streets of Innisfail and acquired a brain injury 20 years ago, he has kept mostly to himself.Tull recently moved to his own place in Mango Hill, currently covered by NDIS funding. It is an improvement, though too small to have his three boys – aged eight, six and four – stay over.
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