Link2home is the NSW statewide homelessness information and referral telephone service. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Link2home can provide information, assessments and referrals to homelessness support and accommodation services in NSW everyday from 9am to 10pm.
To support Australians at risk of or experiencing homelessness, governments across Australia fund housing and homelessness services.
While encampments like the one on Orwell St offers protection, it’s part of a growing trend of homelessness and housing insecurity spurred on by growing rents, rising cost-of-living, and a crisis in the availability of temporary housing in NSW.
Find help if you’re homeless, sleeping rough or couch surfing. Homelessness is a problem that goes beyond not having safe shelter. Being homeless includes: living in a severely overcrowded home. If you need help now, you can find shelter, food and other support in your area on the AskIzzy website.
To find emergency shelter locations on Google Maps, you can search for emergency shelters near me on Google Maps or use the layers feature to find information regarding Wildfires and other calamities.
Join over 130 organisations and individuals advocating for a New South Wales where homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring. Would you like to hear more about Homelessness NSW?
Whatever the result of the New South Wales election on March 25, rising housing stress is a problem the new state government will have to confront. Soaring rents and an extraordinary lack of rental vacancies are intensifying housing stress in Sydney and elsewhere.
The St Vincent de Paul Society NSW operates homelessness services throughout NSW to assist people at-risk of or experiencing homelessness. Ask Izzy is a search tool for people who are experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness.