Homelessness rises amid Australia’s national housing crisis | VideoLab | ABC News

Housing should be for families and people. Not for profiteering, greed is the cause of the housing crisis.

The world has become like the end of a game of monopoly- one player owns all the properties and the rest of us are stuffed.

I am sorry to see Australia is going in the same direction as here in the US. I am 68, homeless, living in my minivan..thankful not in a big city but out in a forest. It is a difficult situation, I have multiple autoimmune diseases.

Fellow Australian here guys... I am 45, always had a home, left home at 17 and worked hard. This year, my boys moved out and I lost my rental. I found myself homeless with my 14 year old daughter. Absolutely appalling and terrifying. Temporary accommodation was maxed out, and people were in trouble everywhere. I finally got a little place and I am so grateful. I just know SO SO many people that have also been hit with homelessness or know someone else. Bless you all and may Australia go back to how it used to be. 🇦🇺

Australia has no shortage of land, no shortage of building materials (brickworks, timber mills, cement factories) yet we have a shortage of housing???

As an Australian I am absolutely appalled that is going on under our very noses. Something needs to be done NOW!

Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Miami in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.

We NEED rental protection. Countries like Switzerland have VERY strict and strong rental protection and most Swiss don't buy because renting is so safe and affordable, it also maintains the housing prices low. Let's not become like the US and strive to be more like countries like Switzerland.

I can't accept that we arrived in this situation, homeless, war, people dying in refuges camp and we are crying for billionaires that died inside of a f.. creep hand made submarine with a game pad control that spend 200.000 for a ticket.

I truly feel for these people on the streets. 5 years ago I had to declare bankrupt after I had an $8,000 gearbox repair on my vehicle. I lost the vehicle and my income as a courier driver. I was very fortunate to find a place to live as I could not afford the rent after my wife passed away. I am truly blessed to have a nice granny flat and eventually got a disability pension.

I used to live in Sydney CBD for 7 years from 2009-2016. Back then, there were very little number of homeless people on the street, but still quite struggling for me to live there as an overseas student. In 2016, i had to make a big decision whether to stay or to leave Aus. Now i know i made the right decision to leave. I now live simple life in my home country, Thailand. Still work hard, but my life is much more simple here, with affordable cost of living. I wish everybody will be able to survive this perfect storm.

This started in 2007. They've had 15 years and they didn't do a thing it just gets worse and worse. The housing market was capitalised on. Things like housing should be shielded from capitalistic parasites.

Congratulations to the ABC for finally choosing, or perhaps forgetting to leave the comments section open. This country needs to act urgently to accomodate everyone. Introduce rental caps, restrict airbnb and offer better support services and terms for families/singles struggling with mortgage increases.

It's one thing to have an article about the increasing homelessness but the media needs to start being honest about the reasons why this is happening. The policies that our government is pushing in favor of big business and their fellow politicians investment portfolios. There's many things that can be done to solve this problem which are available to us today. The reason for not choosing those solutions is greed.

Great presentation. Good on you ABC. For decades everything has been geared towards the real estate game in this country. To the detriment of everything else.

This is heartbreaking. What a dystopia! Greed pure and simple.

Unforgivable government cruelty. Never forget, never forgive.

This was eye-opening for me to watch. I'm American and I previously thought Australia had strong social policies and that homelessness effectively didn't exist down under. I'm sad to see this suffering in your country. I hope to see an end to this needless suffering in my lifetime.

When I lived in Australia in the 1990s there were no homeless people barring a few individuals who had mental problems. Rents were very reasonable in Sydney back then. These were not topics of discussion in mainstream Australian society. Everyone was focused on football, cricket matches and the Melbourne Cup and Victoria Bitters and Fosters. I look back on that era with nostalgia. That was the golden age.

Aussie federal government has money for nuclear submarines but none to spare for social housing for the poor.. How pathetic can one get??