The vulnerable and homeless staying at Big Bird Backpackers were told they'd be evicted. Now, they've been granted an additional three months of accommodation.
abc.net.au/news/vulnerable-tenants-facing-eviction-given-another-three-months/102277648Vulnerable locals who were set to lose their beds today at an inner-city hostel, sheltering homeless people, have been given a three-month reprieve as authorities race to find alternative accommodation.The Department of Housing has been taking inventory of the people living at Big Bird Backpackers
, which started housing people who were sleeping rough during COVID-19, were set to lose their accommodation today after lease negotiations had broken down and the manager had been given until today to find an extra $400,000 a year to keep the doors open. "We are in the position where we've secured a three-month period, with support from [the Department of] Housing, to remain open," Mr Farries said.
"You imagine that government is sort of sleeping, there's cobwebs around the offices and that type of thing … It isn't like that, [the Department is] pretty dynamic, from 48 hours after the story broke and we'd written to the minister, we had [the Department of] Housing onto us saying right, 'what's going on there?'.
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