In Australia there is 105,237 people that are homeless, 1 in every 200 people are homeless, 56% of those people are male and 44% are female and 30% of the two are born overseas.
Homelessness is a worldwide social justice issue. In each state of Australia there are thousands of homeless people in NSW there is 28,190, VIC 22,789, QLD 19,838, SA 5,985, WA 9,592, TAS 1,579, NT 15,479 and ACT 1,785.
The places in Australia that are more affected by this issue are New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Northern Territory. You can be homeless at any age starting from under the age of 12 to 75 years and older, the main ages that homelessness occur at are under the age of 12 there’s 17% (17.845), ages form 12-18 10% (10,913), ages form 19-24 15% (15, 325) and ages 25-34 18% ( 19,312), There is not just one reason for someone becoming homeless, homelessness happens because of a number of reason such as domestic and family violence, unemployment, drugs and alcohol abuse, poor physical or mental health and shortage of affordable and available housing.