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He was a 17-year-old student at University High School in Parkville when he was kicked out of home and found he had nowhere to go.

For eight months a Ford Territory has been home for Cassandra, her partner and their boys aged one and five.

A 64-year-old man presented to police nearly two days after a woman was struck by a van in an alleged hit-run in Mlebourne's Noble Park.

St Kilda locals and business owners are begging for help following a string of violent encounters on a popular Melbourne street.

More than 122,000 Australians were homeless on Census night in 2021, new data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows.

Critics have slammed the reparations plan as financially and politically impossible.

"I would never have believed that this would happen to me at my age."

Thousands of Aussies are living with ongoing and unseen mental scars of surviving massive natural disasters.

Crystal and her family lost everything in the Lismore floods. A year on, they are still living in a caravan and stuck in an insurance nightmare.

Nearly 300,000 Aussie families will be homeless this Christmas.

The final decision on a plan by Byron Shire council in New South Wales to cap some short-term rental homes in the popular coastal holiday region will now be decided by state government experts.

Rental affordability has crashed in all Australia's capital cities, but no one is doing it tougher than tenants in the regions

Five years after filming Some Happy Day, director Catherine Hill says the same problems persist in Australia.

Rents are climbing across capital cities and the regions as vacancies hit record lows - below 1 per cent in some areas.

A working single mother and her daughter are facing homelessness in the New South Wales' Hunter region as Australia's rental crisis lurches from bad to worse.

An elderly South Australian man has escaped from his burning house unharmed, but has been rendered homeless.

A Queensland grandma forced to sleep in a caravan after flooding destroyed her home is one of many facing the threat of rising insurance costs.

A formerly homeless man who ended up in a Hawaii mental institution for more than two years because of mistaken identity is suing the state and various Honolulu police officers, Hawaii public defenders and doctors.

Just 10 kilometres from the Queensland border, residents at the "makeshift refugee camp" in New South Wales say they're completely homeless due to strict border controls.

The woman was resting on a sea wall when she fell into the canal, St. Petersburg Fire Rescue said in a news release. Someone heard the woman's cries for help and called 911.

Awhi is living in a cave surrounded by some of the most expensive real estate in New Zealand. Some residents want him gone but he says it is the only shelter he can find.

A billionaire software company CEO has given a former hermit in New Hampshire $250,000 to rebuild his cabin in a new location.

More than 700 people have already been put into temporary housing to help prevent the spread of the Delta strain.

A snapshot that surveyed 74,000 rental listings across the country found less than 1 per cent of properties were affordable for people on welfare.

Girls as young as 12 are homeless and alone, making them vulnerable to violence and sexual assault.

Youths Off The Streets founder Father Chris Riley has moved into respite care after being hospitalised for a diabetes-related illness.

The pandemic has exacerbated the issue further with experts likening the situation to a ticking timebomb.

Dr Anil Mehta is on a mission to bring the coronavirus vaccine to those hardest to reach and often most at risk of getting sick in east London.

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has blamed "professional protesters" and the Liberal opposition for encouraging the establishment of a tent city in Fremantle.

Homelessness in parts of NSW will spike as much as 40 percent by June as a result of the pandemic, according to a study released today.

We have been told not to leave our homes unless necessary, but what if you don't have a home to leave?

A homeless man in the US allegedly stole up to $1600 of merchandise and food while living in the luxury suite of a Tampa Bay soccer stadium for over two weeks, police say.

Colloquially known as 501s, the group was deported after serving sentences in Australia and after quarantine in Auckland, some had no home to return to.

It's been two years since Kerry Anne has had a place to call her own.

The Victorian government has promised $40.2 million to help those experiencing domestic violence and homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australians with few financial resources are going hungry as food services close their doors or buckle under the immense pressure of the coronavirus outbreak.

An 'overwhelmed' homelessness support centre in central Perth has recently become the site of numerous violent brawls caught on camera, causing concern among local businesses.

A man who was the instigator behind a false feel-good story that raised more than $580,000 as part of a GoFundMe scam plead guilty in New Jersey court, according to prosecutors.

A man charged with murder after a body was found in a sleeping bag at Tweed Heads will also be charged with the murder of a Sunshine Coast man.

While waiting lists for NSW public housing can take more than 10 years, the state government is raking in millions by selling more and more properties.

Two men at a homeless encampment in the San Francisco Bay area were hospitalised this weekend after police say they were struck by arrows in an attempted double homicide.

A fight broke out among several people known to attend the Northbridge Tranby centre, with police response time blamed for the escalation of the bloody brawl.

The suspect in Saturday's fatal attacks on sleeping homeless men in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood has been charged with four counts of murder.

A homeless man wielding a long metal pipe has rampaged through New York City attacking other homeless people who were sleeping, killing four.

Gold Coast business owners are calling for action, as the number of homeless people puts growing pressure on the tourist town.

A Lithuanian model has been told off by a Melbourne judge for staring at the ceiling and looking bored during a drug possession hearing.

A man charged with the bashing murder of a woman in an inner-Melbourne park is due to be assessed by a forensic psychiatrist.

A Colorado man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing three homeless people in a Denver parking lot last year.

Cities have put spikes on ledges, installed bars on park benches and enacted tent prohibitions to keep homeless people from sleeping in public. West Palm Beach, Florida, is trying something else.

A Sydney trial jury has been told the evidence found at an alleged murder scene with the DNA of Jacksun and Ray Travers does not prove they carried out the killing.