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Our secret shame: Mothers, grandmothers living rough on Queensland’s streets
Friday January 22, 2021
The pandemic has revealed the shocking extent of Queensland’s ‘hidden’ crisis of older women facing homelessness, writes Katrina Beikoff.
Older women were the fastest-growing group among the state’s homeless. (Photo: Ilse Orsel/Unsplash)
The number of single older women seeking help to avoid being homeless was “bubbling over” with support agencies across the state struggling to deal with the crisis in affordable rental accommodation exposed by the pandemic.
Brisbane Housing Company chief and deputy chair of the national Community Housing Industry…
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