
States housed 40,000 people for the Covid emergency. Now rough sleeper numbers are back on the up.
Hal Pawson UNSW. Chris Martin UNSW. Australian governments acted to protect homeless people from COVID-19 in 2020 on an even larger scale than previously thought. In the first six months of the pandemic, the four states that launched emergency programs housed more than 40,000 rough sleepers and others. The states were anxious about rough sleepers’ […]