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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Stephanie Convery

Almost half of people seeking help for homelessness in NSW in past year did not get it, report finds

A homeless person is sleeping on the street during the day and a pedestrian is walking in front of him/her.
Unmet demand for homelessness services is up 10 percentage points from five years ago in NSW and Queensland, but has dropped in Victoria, according to a Productivity Commission report. Photograph: William Ho/Getty Images

Nearly half of all people who sought help with homelessness last year in New South Wales did not get it, a new report has shown.

According to data from the Productivity Commission’s annual report on government services, 48.2% of people in Australia’s most populous state who asked for accommodation assistance from specialist homelessness services in the 2020-2021 financial year went without.

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