‘Whole housing system in crisis’: report finds Australia’s emergency accommodation is often unsafe

Australia’s emergency accommodation often compounds the trauma of people experiencing housing crisis, a new report has found. Photograph: Suphansa Subruayying/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Emergency accommodation is often unsafe, inappropriate, of poor quality and compounds the trauma of people experiencing housing crisis, a new report has found.

The lack of available social and affordable housing coupled with inaccessible and unaffordable private rentals meant that most people who entered crisis accommodation had no meaningful pathways out.