housing: Victoria spends about half the national average per person on social housing, according to The Guardian. There are about 80,000 people on the public housing waiting list, including 25,000 children. But as apartments are put up and rents rise, there is also increased attention on whether the vulnerable are becoming the collateral damage of the city's economic boom. A report last week found homelessness was being increasingly concentrated in Australia's capital cities, including Melbourne, a change driven by rising rents. Even before next year's budget. Courtney Herron death Victoria grapples with mental health and addiction among homeless Read more So it was little wonder when the Victorian treasurer, Tim Pallas, was selling his new budget to social service groups last week that he stressed there was more social housing to come.
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