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“It broadened the overall understanding of what homelessness may look like, changing perspectives people have held toward people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n
“While folding houses, one person revealed that they had spent 20 years rough sleeping which no one around them was previously aware of.”<\/p>\n
Ms Gellatly said a Haven Home Safe client who experiences social anxiety had embraced folding the houses and loved the focus it gave them.<\/p>\n
“Playing their part in this larger project from the comfort of their home, they single-handedly folded almost 2000 homes,” she said.<\/p>\n
According to VHN, the last Census showed that 30,000 Victorians, including 6800 children, are without a home on any given night.<\/p>\n
The top three causes of homelessness reported are family violence, financial difficulties and the housing crisis.<\/p>\n
Homelessness Week is running until Sunday, with the theme of Homelessness Action Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HAVEN Home Safe’s Bendigo staff made a major contribution to a Victorian Homelessness Network initiative raising awareness of the state’s social housing deficit. Thousands of locally-made origami houses were among about 6000 displayed on the steps of State Parliament on 31 July as part of the VHN campaign for State and Federal governments to build […]<\/p>\n