Public housing waitlist in Victoria balloons by 55%: ‘I’d never get anything, so why bother?’
by Stephanie Convery from on (#5ZFHS)
An estimated 119,000 people are on multiyear waits for social housing as federal and state governments deliver mixed responses
Cheryl Hawkett applied to access public housing in 2015. She was living in the rural Victorian town of Moe, in a bedsit so small and cramped you couldn't really swing a cat in it".
Her doctor wrote a letter to accompany the application, arguing that her housing situation was detrimental to her health. She was grappling with serious anxiety and depression at the time, which culminated in a hospital stay under the care of a psychiatrist.
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