Homelessness week

  • Paper houses highlight homelessness needs

    Six-thousand origami houses will pop up at State Parliament next week to highlight the homelessness crisis across Victoria.

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  • Re-thinking homelessness

    A Colac district welfare worker is encouraging residents to re-think their definition of homelessness to help break the stigma around people experiencing homelessness in regional areas.

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  • Homelessness pressure increases

    More than 500 households in Colac Otway Shire required support from homelessness agencies between 2020 and 2021, a report has shown.

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  • Rising rent ramps up pressure on housing affordability

    Colac’s rental vacancy rate is at a nine-year low and rentals are becoming unaffordable for low-income workers, new data shows, as the city remains in the grips of a housing crisis.

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