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Homelessness is a problem that goes beyond ‘rooflessness’ and a lack of access to safe shelter. The experience of homelessness includes vulnerable people living in refuges, crisis accommodation or in temporary housing.

Every night, more than 116,000 people in Australia experience homelessness(1). Although the most visible experience of homelessness involves sleeping rough on the streets, this type of homelessness only represents 7% of the homeless population. Thousands of men, women, young people and children forced to ‘couch surf’, seek shelter in a car or rely on temporary accommodation, are experiencing different forms of homelessness. People living in severely overcrowded dwellings or inadequate forms of shelter that fall well below adequate standards, such as boarding houses and caravan parks, are also considered to be experiencing homelessness.

Australians desperately need our support, so let's get fit and raise money to support Mission Australia.

(1) Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016) Census of Population and Housing: Estimating Homelessness, 2016