Talk about Homeless

[MermaidHair]

What an important discussion, and a topic very close to my heart.

I'm sorry you're both experiencing this currently @Stout and @Glisten. I am glad you have finally found stability @The-red-centaur  🙏

Just 3 years ago I spent several months homeless with my 3 kids, not as in sleeping on the streets thankfully but we all shared a single bedroom in a very rundown and dilapidated old house. I was very grateful for it at the time as many others are in far worse circumstances.

Where I live there is a lot of this, I call it "hidden homelessness", it's out of sight. Families sharing bedrooms, garages, tents in peoples yards, you'd never know. We also have a more obvious homeless population living in makeshift tents and swags in the bushes at the beach. There are a couple of older gentlemen who I frequently see using the public BBQs to cook themselves breakfast or lunch. I think that is so resourceful but it also makes me really sad.

Even though I have a home I have been in for almost 3 years now, being a renter I worry I could be right back where I was if I ever have to move, it is a tough market out there. Shelter/ housing should be a basic human right and not the commodity it has become.

I am hopeful we will see change 💜 

[PeppyPatti]

Omg @Stout 

I'm so thinking about you. 

@TAB s information is pretty good. 

I live in public housing. A builder here at these units once told me that he felt all the behaviour of department of housing people is based on fear of them being sacked. 

Do you have other places to apply ? Here in Perth I think it's called foundation housing.... 

 

[PeppyPatti]

Foundation housing ? 

Anglicare ? 

That place 5/5 Aberdeen Street, east Perth near to mc gyver train station ? 

[TAB]

I had all sorts of trouble w homewest just trying to get a bond loan @PeppyPatti  they said they would do it. 7 visits later they blamed me and refused to do it.they are a cult.

[PeppyPatti]

Yep. Dunno what's it like over in SA.

@TAB is is great owning your own place ?  Even though clever story how you decided to purchase it ?

[Glisten]

@The-red-centaur @PeppyPatti @TAB 

We are 5 months away from 2025 WA State and Federal government elections.

If you want to take action to support your Forum friends.

Please email your State and Federal Government representative and tell them your experience.

Every email is a vote.

G

[PeppyPatti]

Ok :ok_hand: 

😺

[TAB]

Yes it is great re own place @PeppyPatti 

I cant hear the outside world when inside not like in caravan. I can throw food scraps out for birds. I can change things (curtains , blinds, insulation, extra aircons so far. Chose my own appliances etc. My own 'castle' lol 

Was paying $16k/yr rent in caravan park. Now zero. Ok $2500 in council rates. And didn't have to get a mortgage.

[TAB]

When I get home can check names of places to do surveys etc . Where like 3 dift lots contacting me @Glisten 

[Stout]

@PeppyPatti  yeah sure, Anglicare , they were rude and brutal. The church eh, not vulnerable to adverse penetration. I was bullied and humiliated and dragged through the courts by an eviction campaign in the name of the church. A very public persecution and witchunt. My mental health status was called into question by applicants close to passing on. Filthy. The jackals etal thought it humourous. Foul intervention of the State. Where I was at, the church had all the other Tennant's close to God. But not I. I was held to inquisition, and community humiliation.

Can you imagine the mental health stress I was in????