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Alex Mitchell

Shifted, not solved: rough sleeping soars in regions

Government support for NSW's homeless needs a 50 per cent boost, advocates say. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Homelessness is soaring in regional areas as advocates plead for more funding to stop simply shifting the problem and start solving it.

The number of people sleeping rough in NSW has increased 75 per cent in six years, according to a Homelessness NSW report that relies on the state's street count data.

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