Perth's homelessness crisis: the WA election issue Mark McGowan can't shake off

Fremantle's tent city' has shed light on Western Australia's growing number of rough sleepers - and a Labor government presiding over a ballooning public housing waiting list

Just a few blocks from Western Australia's parliament, dozens of vulnerable people have had to leave a city hotel and continue to face an uncertain future.

These are some of the people at the centre of Perth's homelessness crisis, one of the few election issues on which WA's most popular premier in history", Mark McGowan, does not control the narrative.