Persons with no residency status and no income or work rights

The experience of people without Australian permanent residency accessing emergency accommodation in inner-city Sydney is presented in a report by Homelessness NSW. Without access to Centrelink entitlements or housing and homelessness support such as Temporary or Crisis Accommodation, many people have fallen into rough sleeping or longer-term homelessness because there is no safety net available to them.
This survey asked people seeking asylum about their housing and homelessness experiences since arriving in Australia and also about their income, employment, and the impact of COVID-19 restrictions of March 2020.