The South Australian auditor-general has blasted the states housing trust, for not effectively managing specialist homelessness services across the state. It comes as Mission Australia releases a new survey, with one-in-ten young respondents saying they faced homelessness in the past year.
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00:00Well, a report from the Auditor-General has found gaps in areas like identifying unmet
00:06needs and ensuring that service providers are meeting their intended outcomes here in
00:10South Australia.
00:11Now, the report says that gaps like this increase the risk South Australians who are experiencing
00:15or at risk of homelessness, that they might not be getting the support that they need
00:19and that they could face housing insecurity for longer.
00:22Now, the 2021 census recorded almost seven and a half thousand people here in South Australia
00:27experiencing homelessness, while a further 5,000 were in marginalised housing.
00:32Now, the report found that the trust acknowledged where it had to improve and that it was taking
00:36active steps to work on those areas.
00:39Human Services Minister Nat Cook says that her team inherited a rushed framework and
00:43that they were working now on a new framework for homelessness services.
00:47Now, she's welcomed the report and says that she's looking forward to working on these
00:51recommendations.
00:52A new report from Mission Australia found that nearly one in ten young people across
00:56the country were experiencing homelessness.
00:58Now, it's an issue which has been persisting since at least 2017 and we're continuing to
01:03see rising issues of it with the ongoing housing crisis across the country.
01:07Now, to help curb this, Mission Australia is calling for at least 15,000 dedicated social
01:12housing youth tenancies, as well as other methods to help prevent the issue.