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Homelessness a growing emergency for regional women

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ABC Radio

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Jan Berriman, speaks with Fran Kelly

Abstract

The first national study on homelessness affecting women in regional Australia reveals a growing crisis.

One in eight women on low and middle incomes, living in the regions, reported they had been homeless in the past five years – and a quarter of that group have lived in temporary accommodation because they couldn’t afford the private rental market.

The research has been commissioned by YWCA. Director of national housing and property development for the association, Jan Berriman, speaks with Fran Kelly.

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