Homelessness workers in Ballarat highlight the need for more housing and empathy | ABC Australia
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- Each day, Ballarat homelessness outreach workers Ada and Ayden arrive at work knowing there's more than 75 people sleeping rough who they cannot house. They pack their van with supplies in the morning and head out on the road to isolated bush locations, campgrounds and the city's sports ground grandstands, where people are sleeping in tents, swags or their cars, to drop food and other daily supplies, while providing a listening ear. They say it's tough having no housing solutions for people, such as a 22-year-old who's living in his car in the bush with his dog, or a family living in an old caravan with their two young children.
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What a great thing you are doing for the homeless may God bless you .🙏🙏
How come you are thanking God? God is the one that allowed this.
Thank the people that are doing something about this
I feel sorry for people who end up homeless for no fault of their own. The rental applications are very difficult for some people. I know myself even though i had rented in the past and had been a homeowner for many years it was very difficult to get a rental. If you aren't technology savvy with all these so called "apps" etc its really hard to navigate the system and aquire somewhere to live. Praise be to God, Jesus answered my prayers and i managed to rent a one bedroom unit for my adult daughter and I with a pet rabbit - it truely was a miracle and i am very grateful we didnt end up homeless after i sold my house. I even got a place in a city where there was a real shortage of rentals and people would marvel i got one and I just gave God the glory - Jesus really does answer prayers and i hope the man who is featured in this video has his prayers answered and he has a roof over his head now with his furry friends 😊
There isnt one place ppl can go anywhere in Sydney for a dam shower, NOT ONE PLACE. like thats just degusting as country's like the US have multiple places like that. one in basically every city so for a city of 300 thousand like Wollongong thats just pathetic...
Iv let many times homeless ppl shower at my house but there isnt many ppl out there like me i can tell u that when it comes to looking after the venerable especially in this greedy n self absorbent society we live in today..
God bless you for being so kind and willing to let people shower at your place. Its a shame no one is willing to provide someplace for people to shower and clean their clothing. The Bendigo baptist church is doing that - is there a local church there you can contact and try to motivate into providing the facilities and volunteers to meet the need?
Wow an ABC video with comments turned on, it's like freedom of speech. ABC usually turns comments off. Are we the people of Australia permitted to converse on this topic? So divisive.
Maybe they knew you'd only have something this constructive to add.
Yes amazing isn’t it … our ABC open to nice comments only
Unfortunately with this modern phenomenon of hate groups and people thinking abusing people is entertainment they have to turn off the comments
"Grandpa" Raymond Farquhar from Ballarat of all people was interviewed 😂 lol 😆
With Reid's Guest House (60 beds) now closing its doors in July- August 2024, Peplow House (around 20 beds) & another guest style house in Lyons Street South (18 beds & males only) will be the only places available. I think from memory there is another guesthouse out in Buninyong which is for both males & females.
A lot of homeless people refuse emergency or transitional housing because they don't want to give up their pets.
And Dan Andrews gets the Companion of the Order of Australia award for this and all the other destruction he's done to this state??
And they go and demolish all the public housing in Delacombe, fair enough they are rebuilding but that will take years. Where do all those people go who were living there?
Into tents under bridges.
People are already leaving australia for a better life. Homelessness will be a normality here very soon
They probably shouldnt be transporting gas bottles in an enclosed space inside the vehicle!
Lake Burrumbeet. The major problem is housing and United are only able to offer subsidised housing rent. Ray has his own car to drive into town.
What startled me is that many of these United workers, aren't Christian nor are coming from a Christian perspective.
I think it is wonderful the work you are doing i dont understand why in a rural setting like Ballarat our Government wont invest in immediate housing relief with the mas purchase of container homes or some similar rapidly installed tiny home accommodation that will provide more suitable long term accommodation while the construction of more affordable housing is required its not the answer for everyone smaller single occupancy alternatives are also much needed
Nice video!
Homelessness is unfortunately becoming normalized in Australia now.
This is sad the government should be doing more
Far ,far fewer immigrants required, negative gearing stopped and short term rentals limited to 3 months a year.
Hi
Why isn’t he eligible for aged care or disabled housing?
Sure its great wat they do but one lil free food stall like come on as there so far n few bettween , like australia needs lot more places where ppl can go n get hot ready meals n so on as there were alot more even in the 80s n 90s that i no of but all oof the ones iv known wat were around have long since gone so dont be to pleased wit your self ABC as it must have been super hard just to find this one, i mean there was one in Wollongong run by Vinnys but thats been gone now over 20 years wit nothing replaces it n i could go on n on.
Covid might of closed down the places where they used to cook hot meals for people who are homeless and struggling. They do more food boxes and vouchers where we live these days but i personally think it would better if the good old soup kitchens returned because i have seen people who dont need the charity here taking stuff and others tempted to make the wrong choices with what they are given whereas when they have to go somewhere to get the meals at least they get a proper healthy nutritious meal and its good for their mental well being as well to have to go somewhere and have people get to know them and care about them.
Why is it always cold weather that brings on disasters where people are homeless and have nothing . No food no money no warm clothes . It’s enough to make you you crazy.
I think I'd find some crown land somewhere tucked away and just start building myself a shack.. somewhere warm n dry to sleep in..food can be obtained easily it's more the need for somewhere dry n warm to sleep
Great workers making direct contact and services networks - but many church NGO's have investment Houses properties that can be utilised, especially connected with Private church Schools, left to privileged people. As the Churches and grounds could house and feed people. Many NGO executives have extraordinary pays that what creates POVERTY - where they buy investments or save amounts - away from actually dealing with Christ' work of helping all. So these keep people trapped in these poverty cycles, indefinitely. Whilst wealthy hoard - its a bit of a mental health illness?
It’s winter stay where you are and squat. They are going to lose the houses anyway. It’s all been planned.
I get so mad when i see their property portfolios expand in their church denominations with the sunday tithes when its the opposite to what Jesus Christ taught. I get so annoyed the buildings arent used to house, feed and wash people myself. On the otherhand i have tried to help people myself and its really hard if they dont want to change and want to take drugs and trash properties, lie etc. You can only help people who are truely wanting to live a decent life and to do the right thing - there is the odd person who regrets their bad choices and wants to change and choose to do whats right in the future and they are so grateful for the help and opportunities they are given when people are kind and help them. Then theres others who just want to get what they can to continue in a destructive lifestyle which ruins it for others. The elderly man featured in this video looks like someone who might of just fallen on hard times or ended up homeless for whatever reason. He appears to be someone who can be trusted and would be grateful to have the oppprtunity to have somewhere to live. Hoping and praying he has a roof over his head now.
Where I live there is a Church that worked in conjunction with a NGO to use their land to build units for elderly and for others doing it tough. In a small town they built 11 units.
The ABC talks endlessly about homelessness and the housing crisis, but refuses to talk about the primary cause: mass immigration. We pour in tens and hundreds of thousands of people every year, year on year, without end. Immigration, the elephant in the room, and yet the third rail. It's because it's the ABC's diversity religion: immigration must be axiomatically good, so NEVER criticise it.
It's literally not immigration that causes it, there are more empty houses in Australia than there are homeless people, extortionately high rents are what cause homelessness and that is caused by property developers primarily building luxury apartments to sell as investments rather than affordable homes designed for average people to live in
Blaming immigrants for something that is clearly caused by wealthy landlords and housing corporations is pretty lazy