Street count finds 486 sleeping rough and 404 staying in homelessness hostels as rental prices outgrow incomesA record 486 people are sleeping rough on the streets of central Sydney,a figure which the lord mayor, Clover Moore, and has lamented as a “dramatic rise” from the 352 counted in the last survey.
The figure comes from a street count of approximately two-thirds of the City of Sydney local government area taken overnight on 23 February. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com