54% of homeless women with children, leave due to domestic violence and the absence of longterm, secure and affordable housing often drives them back into violent relationships and unsafe housing.
More than ten percent of people in prison were homeless before being incarcerated.
In the ACT, more than three quarters of adults and unaccompanied children were turned away from homeless shelters.
Since very little Haitian land has clear title, much of the area around Port-au-Prince is now occupied by squatters who resist eviction. That makes it hard to find suitable sites for temporary portable shelters: less than a third of the 23,000 currently available have been erected. Even when they do go up, there is no system to allocate them.
Because the [Haitian] government has not yet decided where rubble should be disposed of, less than 5% of the more than 20m cubic metres of debris from the quake has been cleared.
Yet over 1m people are still packed into 1,300 tent cities in and around [Haiti’s] capital. The camps’ population is rising … The state has little presence in them, and charities cater to only around a quarter of them.
Indigenous people are almost one third as likely as non-Indigenous to own their own home.
Indigenous people make up more than 20% of the clients of Australia’s homeless programs, despite only making up 2.5% of its population. Indigenous people make up almost a third of all valid requests for assistance from the homeless that go unmet.
Almost a third of Indigenous Community Housing is overcrowded.
Almost one in three Indigenous Community Housing dwellings are in need of major repair or replacement.
