{"id":21229,"date":"2023-05-23T00:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21229"},"modified":"2023-05-23T00:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T00:58:33","slug":"homelessness-crisis-needs-urgent-government-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/05\/23\/homelessness-crisis-needs-urgent-government-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness crisis needs urgent government action\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NSW\u2019s growing homelessness crisis can be solved with urgent government action on housing and support, says Homelessness NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEO Trina Jones said: \u201cThe rising cost of living, low wages and a dire shortage of affordable rental homes is fuelling a homelessness crisis across NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEnsuring that everyone has a safe place to call home should be among the first priorities of any government. The solutions are easy to implement and relatively affordable.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe state government must act by urgently building more social housing and better supporting homelessness services which are under pressure with soaring demand from people in need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission Australia today reports demand for homelessness services is up 26 per cent and a PropTrack analysis shows the plunging proportion of affordable rental housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Homelessness NSW is calling on the state government to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Increase net stock of social housing from 4.7% to 10%&nbsp;<\/li><li>Properly fund homelessness services to meet rising demand&nbsp;<\/li><li>Improve coordination on housing across government<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>68,500 people were supported by Specialist Homelessness Services in NSW in 2022<\/li><li>NSW currently builds an average 34,000 residential dwellings per year.<\/li><li>Approximately 700 &#8211; or just 2% are social housing.&nbsp;At the current rate of social housing investment, it will take over 80 years to meet the current demand of the waiting list<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW\u2019s growing homelessness crisis can be solved with urgent government action on housing and support, says Homelessness NSW. CEO Trina Jones said: \u201cThe rising cost of living, low wages and a dire shortage of affordable rental homes is fuelling a homelessness crisis across NSW. \u201cEnsuring that everyone has a safe place to call home should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/05\/23\/homelessness-crisis-needs-urgent-government-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homelessness crisis needs urgent government action\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21230,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21229\/revisions\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}