If you were homeless in Melbourne tonight what would you do? where would you find shelter? I think I read recently that there are 100,000 people homeless in Australia every night of the week.
>…100,000 people homeless in Australia every night of the week.
census figures?
bob(from black rock) said:
If you were homeless in Melbourne tonight what would you do? where would you find shelter? I think I read recently that there are 100,000 people homeless in Australia every night of the week.
Cardboard boxes with plastic rubbish bags taped over to water proof them
newspapers as blankets
Witty Rejoinder said:
bob(from black rock) said:
If you were homeless in Melbourne tonight what would you do? where would you find shelter? I think I read recently that there are 100,000 people homeless in Australia every night of the week.
There’s a difference between being homeless and ‘rough sleeping’.
What is that? I had a response but realised it probably wouldn’t work for people without an actual house and probably smelly with a substance abuse problem.
Witty Rejoinder said:
bob(from black rock) said:
If you were homeless in Melbourne tonight what would you do? where would you find shelter? I think I read recently that there are 100,000 people homeless in Australia every night of the week.
There’s a difference between being homeless and ‘rough sleeping’.
OK, feel free to answer either, or both.
railway waiting rooms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Australia
This article describes homelessness in Australia. The majority of long term homeless people are found in the large cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane. It is estimated that on any given night approximately 105,000 people will be homeless.
A person is considered to be homeless in Australia if they: – Do not have access to safe, secure adequate housing, or, if the only housing they have access to damages, or is likely to damage, their health. – Are in circumstances which threaten or adversely affect the adequacy, safety, security, or affordability of their home. – Have no security of tenure – that is, they have no legal right to continued occupation of their home.
AwesomeO said:
What is that? I had a response but realised it probably wouldn’t work for people without an actual house and probably smelly with a substance abuse problem.
Rough sleeping seems to be the term used for camping out in a public place. If you squat, sleep in your car, or sleep over at a friends house you are still included in the stats as homeless.
According to one of the social workers at work, couch-surfing for two years isn’t considered homeless…
You could sleep in a car I suppose
I knew someone who was effectively sleeping on the street for about 1.5 years or more at TAFE, bit of a strange character ( think he went mad ).
You had plenty of stories of people trying to break in whilst he was sleeping
The best one was that in car you have to take a piss of a night (into a plastic bottle). He tried using the small coke bottles and the like but graduated to larger 2L bottles which he would fill to the brim but always forget to take them out till he was driving around with about 20 L of piss hidden around the vehicle – for a joke he handed someone one of these bottles as they got out the car and they nearly had their hand round it when they recoiled in horror.
I think he drank as well
I’d go to the casino.
And if I were real desperate, I’d scavenge left over meals from the cafeteria.
i asked them, they squatted, or just chilled out on the bench,
SCIENCE said:
i asked them, they squatted, or just chilled out on the bench,
sleeping alone is riskier than having people in a similar situation
you can hide in parks etc or set up in the lit parts of parks but this is also risky as you can be set upon by yobs – now and then apart from getting a hiding you can get killed
graveyards – you should set up camp away from the main thoroughfares – you probably shouldn’t use the same grave (mausoleum) every night, if you are seen of a day or leave traces for people to realise you are camping they can call the police or return to attack you of a night. if you are a drunk or similar you can simply sleep rough on open tombstones etc – as a genral rule there will be other people sleeping rough there too. they can leave you alone, co operate or be a problem
wookiemeister said:
SCIENCE said:
i asked them, they squatted, or just chilled out on the bench,
its risky, you expose yourself to attack. you can get more protection in more frequented locations and set up camp there. cardboard sheeting to stop the cold of the concrete / asphalt drawing heat from you. sleeping bag or the like to keep heat in on the top.sleeping alone is riskier than having people in a similar situation
you can hide in parks etc or set up in the lit parts of parks but this is also risky as you can be set upon by yobs – now and then apart from getting a hiding you can get killed
graveyards – you should set up camp away from the main thoroughfares – you probably shouldn’t use the same grave (mausoleum) every night, if you are seen of a day or leave traces for people to realise you are camping they can call the police or return to attack you of a night. if you are a drunk or similar you can simply sleep rough on open tombstones etc – as a genral rule there will be other people sleeping rough there too. they can leave you alone, co operate or be a problem
of the homeful right
for a little contrast
enjoy homeless plight
it’s a silent blast
contrast is to ideology
comparison too
as gods are to mythology
the friend of who’s who
of the hypercontrasting
hides the absolutist
regards your wellbeing
otherwise unconformist
fall into line or pay
find yourself displaced
the game you will play
the hidden disgrace
its a problem that seemingly can’t be solved
we can spend 50,000 dollars to send joe hockey a chef whilst he’s on holiday in America but we can’t make sure the homeless have somewhere to stay
the least you could do is possibly set up a tent city in an outer suburb somewhere not near some horrible housing estate
the way I’d do it is to take a leaf out of the romans and the kibbutz model
lay down a square perimeter, one main gate, a inner perimeter track that follows the fence. lay down gravel tracks in a grid pattern inside with sand patches for tents to be set up on them (you need drainage when it rains)
you can have drains that take water away from the area, plastic duct with a metal grill to stop people falling in
the camp is split into quadrants, each with a Wi-Fi tower
you’d split each basic category of social need amongst the quadrants – you wouldn’t have single mums with kids living in the same quadrant as single males for example
The streetsmartaustralia site says that about 14000 people are sleeping rough. I am going to assuming you are referring to sleeping rough. If I was homeless and in a homeless shelter, what I would do tonight was sleep in a homeless shelter.
If I literally had no place to sleep I would do what needed doing to get a place to stay. Assuming that I am impecunious as heck, I would not have a phone or money for a phone so I would’ve gone to a public library early this morning and used the internet services to rustle up a bed at a shelter.
transition said:
A person is considered to be homeless in Australia if they … Are in circumstances which threaten or adversely affect the … affordability of their home.
So you are considered homeless whenever the interest rate on your mortgage might be going up?
Soso said:
transition said:
A person is considered to be homeless in Australia if they … Are in circumstances which threaten or adversely affect the … affordability of their home.
So you are considered homeless whenever the interest rate on your mortgage might be going up?
They hold the deeds to the house until such time ??
wookiemeister said:
Soso said:
transition said:
A person is considered to be homeless in Australia if they … Are in circumstances which threaten or adversely affect the … affordability of their home.
So you are considered homeless whenever the interest rate on your mortgage might be going up?
The bank always owns your house until you pay the mortgage, regardless of interest rates .They hold the deeds to the house until such time ??
Bullshit. They hold a mortgage.