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Giving heart to the homeless

Giving heart to the homeless. Sue Cripps CEO. Painting the picture. Primary Homelessness People without conventional accommodation, such as people living on the streets, sleeping in parks, squatting in derelict buildings or using cars or railway carriages for temporary shelter.

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Giving heart to the homeless

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  1. Giving heart to the homeless Sue Cripps CEO

  2. Painting the picture • Primary Homelessness People without conventional accommodation, such as people living on the streets, sleeping in parks, squatting in derelict buildings or using cars or railway carriages for temporary shelter. • Secondary Homelessness People moving from one form of temporary accommodation to another. It covers people using refuges and night shelters, women and children escaping domestic violence, people staying temporarily other families as they have nowhere of their own • Tertiary Homelessness People who live in boarding houses on a medium to long-term basis. They do not have security of tenure provided by a lease.

  3. Counting the numbers • Every night across Australia almost 105,000 people are homeless • 45% staying with family & friends • 20% in boarding houses • 16% sleeping rough • 19% in a homeless service

  4. Who is homeless in NSW? • the characteristics of those who used SAAP services in 2009 –10: • Male (42%) • Female (58%) • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 18 % (Compared to a relative population size of 2.3%)

  5. Some final thoughts “A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them”. Leonard Louis Levinson

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