Homelessness services in Tasmania are inundated with demand, with crisis accommodation having to turn people away. The state's social housing wait list is longer than ever and people are waiting a year and a half for a home.
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00:00By nine o'clock every morning each bed at this crisis accommodation centre in Hobart has been
00:07booked by someone who's homeless. Another dozen or so people call but miss out, a number that's
00:12risen in recent years. We're seeing people who maybe their lease has come to an end and they
00:18might be on a disability support pension they just can't afford the rent. Two new bathrooms
00:22have just been built funded through community donations. We always want people to come in and
00:27just feel like whatever we've got is theirs to use. Tasmania's social housing wait list is the
00:33longest it's ever been. In May 2021 around 4,000 people were on the list. Now that's jumped to
00:405,069. The average wait time to be offered a house is 82.2 weeks or more than 18 months. Ryan Davey
00:48has first-hand experience. He and his two children spent two years on the wait list before securing
00:54social housing. I had to live day by day and that hyper vigilance is really stressful and
01:01takes a lot of energy away from trying to move forward out of that hole. This is a crisis make
01:07make no bones about it. The Tasmanian Council of Social Service has launched a new online dashboard
01:13to track the crisis and progress to address it. It says while the state government is on track with
01:19its 10,000 social and affordable homes by 2032 target that goal isn't adequately addressing the
01:25crisis. We would strongly urge the government to have a look at the targets. Are they adequate? Do we
01:31need to go back to the drawing board and do some more modelling in this situation? Tascos suggests the
01:38government needs to double the number of social homes it's trying to build. The government meanwhile says
01:43it's going full steam ahead with delivering its ambitious commitment and more than 40 percent have
01:48already been delivered ahead of schedule. Hobart City Mission is encouraging the community to get
01:53involved in its annual Sleep Rough fundraising event later this month. Learn what it is we do so that you
01:59can go out and agitate and maybe push back to government and say we need to do more as a collective. Raising much
02:06needed funds and attention.
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