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who is darnell? is maya mercer and donny and daily speaking to me earlier. and that is our new show for now. stay tuned for documentary coming up next, or you can check us out online. always at dw dot com. i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for watching the you'll see about the video that goes in the media. may google, google. i've got it done by get. i will stop into that and i'll give you the order . would you be able to order that up, jo made any a dog comment key more people than the eval on worldwide in search of a did you have you ever used them in addition to the method of doing it like godaddy? how do you guys find out about on the story? and so my friends, the
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this house on the right hand side is where our house was. the same tree, actually, same tree always thing here. um let the country of the back they used to be for the for but by with comes rachel not and i was very happy and life was pretty good. it was pretty good. the
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or it happens suddenly my hot bath basically said to me, one day, we don't have any money just and but anyway, it's sort of too hard to kind of even comprehend really he just kept saying to me, don't worry about money, don't worry about money. everything's under control, you just keep doing your thing and but then they stay. he said it was a saturday and he said, we don't have any money left. removing this kind and bicycling to everything. homelessness was not even on my right. i had never,
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ever conceded that i would be homeless never uh is good the the because in the same the
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so many years are running a house is known as the great astray alien dream of the belief was that high minus it would lead to a better life homer presents more than just bricks and mortar. more than a roof of your head. it is a shelter, a safe place to live, giving us security and a sense of belonging. australia was called the lucky country, a land of hope and opportunity. the miss was that if you work hard enough, you could achieve anything. the a was the many to are in a quarter acre block in the suburbs with a close line out the back housing developments where every new subsets, sprawling and the property market was being worked for a while. the future looked rosy. politics and economics change everything.
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as time passed, the great the strangely and dream has slowly eroded. and so many people, that dream has been shattered, the go you've it ran to now, but it's absolutely crazy vile and with the hands of will. how society plays homelessness. daisy's thing in the colony level agenda was wondering, able to think that people homeless because it's the wide fault. technically homeless just means i don't have a home that can happen to anybody. anyone included up homeless in 2 weeks. everyone who looks down at home and table things, these homeless people have done something wrong, or that is the easy to work hard or they sort of shouldn't be on drugs or whatever
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. not realizing that they could be the next homeless person. i didn't think i could end up homeless and i did. i was homeless for over 10 years. i got stuck from my job and have a relationship for pot on the same day. and the 2 ways later because i couldn't afford to buy land. i lost the house as well. so i went through the last part of last job loss has to just for a of the 5 most stressful things you can have and you live will have to once. so from that, i ended up in the state the head of genetic wideband, and i pulled up in chicago and just went to sleep in the back. i actually slept in the one particular pod for almost a year to my car, the
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g column. i've heard clara speaking moving, saw about her experiences as being homeless. please know tara, this one. let me know. like hey, emmy award, which is a science fiction award. 9 for astray is 1st significant female science fiction. it's a popular story of colonial disposition oppression. and the resistance to the invite of fitness i may offend some of you. that's not a surprise. i felt was defend somebody. this land was taken by force and a bonnet genocide, a wall. every square inch of this trawling continent is on say that indigenous land and everyone needs to always remember that as probably it is not the country you think it is. astronomy is vices, sexist,
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xenophobic and honda civic. so don't make me choose which cost of thoughtful. so i am both, i am moles, black and clear, and regional, and l g b 2, i choose a, b, c, d, a s g. the resident of the shadow for 20 years. i came from germany to escape the colors of the german winter. i found a studio and my uncle seasons when not too much for me of the 3 years and 3 months. my mental talk to him and he said not uh, i think i have to give you
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a notice due to lack of spiritual alignment. he didn't like it that i wouldn't much join him and meditating and has little indentation. hans, i had a harassment from maine, the mayor landlord to and i did not time with a bunch of flaws on my doorstep, uninvited and i paid rent. so if just if me be i have moved and nicole for nearly 3 years now. today is the lucky day. no way in sofa. the
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a good thing with stock control over the long term small. most of it is in me switching on the line here we go. the i feel as though because actually my armor,
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i don't even needs coat and i refuse putting good hands on my windows because when i wake up in the morning i can look up straight into the sky and mind assume the night sky. i don't get bored about sometimes i get lonely. i just want to cool up into the fetal position and disappear. not for you any more because it feels lovely, said the
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whole homelessness is often seen as a man's issue. what comes to mind is a man sleeping rough on a park bench. you don't tend to think about someone's daughter, mother, grandmother, as new daughter and matches. full 100000 women of, of 50, has been identified as homeless on the brink of homelessness. these women not only is that the country they r o o is at the well, it is a crisis on our doorstep. it's always been a struggle for women to have a quality in australia. although that has been some progress. the fight for quality in a so called lucky country continues to this day. the
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women may have race, children, how to reduce earning capacity, carrots, aging, parents, put careers on hold, and have little no superannuation. now as they age and with no prospect of getting back into the workforce, they find themselves as part of the crowing and shameful statistics of homelessness . they are often hidden out of sight, out of mind. when will this you're not going to see many women actually sleeping well because they were sleeping, they con, that will sleep out of how many cars women won't even tell their families what they're experiencing. you know, i think everyone would have been sort of surprised if we said that women in the fifty's is the fast as cohort of people experiencing homelessness in australia,
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in the 21st century. no one expected that. and the reasons for it, a complicated superannuation, family violence, pay equity, a whole range of issues that have led to what we're seeing is across this morning. have a good, good, good, good, good. and the photos are already applied, right? yeah. sometimes it looks so bloody big when we say that, yeah, hundreds of thousands of people are either homeless or on the brink. call that the really static from a conversation with my daughter. it was at the time when the food industry station grand hole was in the news haven't been empty for 10 years and below a table sleeping rough. and i said to have many other buildings and now that are
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empty. and from that, housing illustrated is really evolve. health i've shelter is a short term solution, is not a solution for the housing along to them because it's only temporary. the one that use buildings that allowing him teeth to house people with a really in housing stress. the it was all but office american very back into i'm not going to be the total i'm in here with the google the property industry. we can refurbish these buildings for short term lease with an appropriate not for profit like the white, obviously ios elevation. i mean, and then many others, it is not a title solution. we must build a lot more housing. well, it's a great spice for you, and it's big enough that we can, as you said, get people in training and up skill people if they want to re educate. so then they
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can get back into the workforce as well. as the the, the past a certain age experience counts for nothing. apparently it's all about disposability, this bird amount of money is consumers in the same way. yeah. i mean you use it until the next new or younger thing comes along. so you're just saying, who are you anymore? i don't even know the me, i always knew or thought i was i just didn't know such places existed. i didn't know about women's housing because that wasn't in my experience. so it wasn't relevant to me. that was the poor women
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in awful situation. so i had to leave to mr. bonnet, so poor single moms trying to bring up kids and like bailey carping it was for people like that. it wasn't for me, i was never going to be own benefit. so welfare or disability benefits never going to have never owed a pension show maybe. but of course, eat deep. you can go from being incredibly successful, have everything in place and then hooks to little corks. couple of trips you never expected. you hadn't actually allowed full and they, you, uh, on the doorstep of homelessness. i looked in sidney. this is a news as an advertising for many years. creative directive, very high powered jobs, very successful, lots of pressure. but i wasn't on medication bipolar depressive. i was diagnosed bipolar when i was 20 i went to years of taking pretty much every
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90 to press on the mock and traveling them. i was on that as i caught ex. i've been on anti april at t drugs. i've been and also things have been sleeping 17 hours a day on buddy sarah full and is buried. darwin and davinci that caught up with me when i had the e from hell. i lost my mother, my brother, and my lover, and a 12 month period. i had no money, i had to get back to melbourne, find some way to leave started work again, got myself in apartment, lost my job, and retail could not get another one. just could not, could no longer afford to be paying $400.00 a week. rent went through supa, went through everything like that just and then you get to the stage where your stage of space a square, conquer, forge concord back. i couldn't afford to live there, and i couldn't afford to move. and i honestly did not know what i was going to do. and somehow this lovely friend had a friend of hers that she was referring to
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a place called women's housing. that is the only way i found out about women's housing, who came to my rescues. i found some way to lose. that was a major turning point. i feel secure. they told me i had this apartment as long as i wanted or needed. if per chance, george clooney breaks up with them all. and you know, we finally hook up as it should be. he could move into my apartment with me, but it will still be my apartment in my name. the this then is called rosie and i to move off to the side on the 9, but i always got very close to my grandmother. and that's the 9 that came to me of
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cold air rise. the i've seen house was not homeless since 2018, and i bought the bossing december 2000 and i think so. um, pretty much all i have lived in here ever since. this is my home. i don't want to be living in the suburbs. i don't want to be stuck in one place. you know, my dad was alondra, you know, my children, are they a but they busy with a lot. so this is my home, and this is my little lots and lots good.
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while i used to think i need to hi, i need stability on your house. and then after sitting in use of marriage, it was no more. i was a stay at home mom, so i didn't have any money and i had to fight for child support. i could still remember a moment in time with i realized i was on my own. how do i do these? yeah, one, do i just do it? well, this is a, this is, this is my life now. and, and i think from then i started to pick up i probably thought to, there's going to be more to lots of nice. the, it was a real game changing. i decided that i didn't want to be stationary or living in the hands. so when for a big trip this past has just been the best thing ever. i guess i haven't found home apart from us the, it's
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a choices unite. and sometimes via all the unknown prevents those choices. like i used to see why, because my super to body's boss started to, she's done a little kilometers. you know, i might be something go wrong with the engine, but i talked to her all the time and she gets the best or the best diesel. she gets service regularly. she gets in utah as you know. so all those things you think, well that could possibly walk me out. i don't think it's, you know, so much of it's just here the, as long as i can try and get up on the page. i'll just keep doing the,
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as well as state and federal governments, farrah hundreds of organizations, charities not for profits and individuals working around the country to assist and find accommodations for the growing number of women in housing stress. even if a woman is lucky enough to be given a place to live, it's not a gift, it's not free. she must use a portion of her pension to pay the rent. this type of accommodation may look fancy, but it is often located far from the woman's social network and has little or no connection to the life she once had the on from england i came when i was 16. i mean that period of time since i was being in australia, i have moved trends to thought times my
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house in bryson not there anymore for me, but it comes into my head a lot more than i actually realize. i think i must have been walking past the building, saw it. so i'm here in newport. i'm not 100 percent happy living here in women's housing. and though i was wonderful, i haven't really size of my head. i was something more comfort sign. it's scary. i actually didn't realize that all this harmless, this is happening for women, 55, and neither i know is it on my comfort side, thoughts? hi, i've got my apartment now. i. i hope that i might ever have
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to move from there. i don't have the emotional strength to move again. i don't want to. i want to make the most of everything i've got now the me my mom died in 2019. i then found out from the city so that in her will. she made it quite clear that myself and my brother would
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have nothing of hers as old. and the house has been moved to neighbors. she was my mom. and she really high to this i'm quite sure why, but she could the a lot of christmas's i was on my i just feel that it's a family time and as i don't have family aunts trisha probably not to acknowledge it too much or think too much about it and probably treat it as another di
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0 in $71.00. the most stuff that i think are still working up to the fact that you know, what sometimes last just doesn't turn out how you think it will. the i finished my so don't analyze written a commission play, avoid that entirety. julie looked at. it's about 4 people, 2 of them homeless, 2 of them kind of middle class trapped in disused find tunnel, doing a pandemic outbreak of books. and i pitched that before cause it happened. i
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always thought there's a chance of getting back to sleep. the thing that kept me doing what i was doing more than anything else was hurt. that seems like a better one. if anything, having been homeless, has left me a little bit paranoid of something going on again to get this kind of power the way that it's that i could mess up and model. i could go to again. so i tend to die. so things that i kind of secuity in case of a disaster is like being in a constantly, in a way constantly with heightened how annoying about ending up homeless. the last thing that has gotten me out of homelessness and out of poverty started well traveling in this cause i think so i'm calling to say, i don't want to get rid of the positivity this guy has given me and that i've built up from nothing to doing okay,
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starting from experience as well traveling in this old 100 you know how the whole gas also known as how the whole got the unstoppable but she is now really though i don't well, she's lost it outside, but he is my ok. the massive housing thing over the last few decades has pushed up house prices and the cost of renting has skyrocketed the universal declaration of human rights states. everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living. that includes housing. whether it's a utopian vision or not add,
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it's called homelessness is the responsibility of governments. but also as a society, we cannot ignore the situation any longer. there is just not enough affordable housing. there is not enough public housing without governments taking charge. the non government support surfaces a lot going onto the pressure to many people. hi, 9 to ship is a drain out of for each the
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oh, so beautiful. and there's a sense of safety and there's a sense of, of being of a high and i want to thank you all for coming to the opening of gun house in the last year or 2 thirds of the people who were accessing homelessness services with females. and the main reason for accessing those services was a result of family and domestic violence. in the majority of the cases, women need to choose between all of those dying and, and on site harm, overcoming homeless and well, transitional housing like these that doesn't solve homelessness. but it really provides a lifeline for those that needed in the moment. the
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for the for the 6 years of my age, i started the then when i came here, i am sick, 2 of them feed safe and everything is okay. i got married that the age of 21. very sick too. we have one properties and cops and the so when made send all that be how so much. but from the beginning my husband kept me like in the present. he was like, committed to mine a by the middle tables in the house. he was to a sorry to me. and if she has to push me out of the door to send all that,
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i have to see for a long time in outside the house throughout my life. i love the family. and this is the 1st time i came of the family and living alone. but still i see all of them i, these the days have been so for my family, i see i became independent. they became free from everything. all the bondage is send all the struggles in their life. and together we shared with each other and we supple detail i am happy here i don't really get lonely as such, that it hasn't been assign a kind of lost
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a little bit of more passion for it than that. i think that creates a little bit of tightness. it's like, i'm just tired of this for now. just not feeling well get used to. so i don't know if that's what's happening. me. she was more people on the road or if i'm going back to places i've already paying and same. so i don't think it's that it just doesn't feel as i don't think about it too much. but what i'll do is i get all, i can imagine that living in the van will have difficulties. you know, i'll get a step to step up here. this little things like that. um yeah, i honestly don't know. hopefully i would find a quiet place just to just to be of the
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i have this tendency to month to size my situation. it kind of motivates me to get up every morning to make my, to, you know, to keep on moving. but this another side of is the part of the society to be live and just isn't happy with the choice i made of me living in a call not leaving the area. and i just want to stay here the, my home, my, my friends, the,
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i look in other people's cause who live in that. com. and i wouldn't want to share with them because some people are very messy. and some people are kind of neat and tidy like me the, i hit manage to live full time, 247, and my call over 1000 nice. then i got this 1st off, i basically, you know, moving into plays with my, on my phone. so that's a very important factor of want to me. i have not drama with sleeping america, and i have no drama and preparing my meals out of the call bathroom as an issue. i always missed the bathroom. that's the one thing that this i don't know just there's not much in the shadow that is the boss
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disgusting. actually in public amenities. display is usually used as a retreat center due to the corporate 19 looked on the personal ones. this normally retreats into the he kept building constellations, thoughts m to spending. so he offered us to stay here. june to the looked on was the last one to hire for 5 women and to build one immediately i started to unpack everything in my call thought stuff into what's really essential to me and give other stuff away. so i the fact that i
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have space here to kind of, we organize myself, it's pretty clear that there will be a day when i have to move all the again, what i don't know is when those will be asking to give, in nearly 3 more weeks there's a lot of uncertainties. i'm up as a flight of the day when i have to leave again and all to put it all back in my con storage the
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so i spend my time here in the bed with us. i was, i couldn't leave if i wanted to. if i don't really take yeah this it stays law and size. my visa, it gets married. i hit that one. and i just found who's good anymore. so that means i has to, has a meticulous slip. and so like, i would not put my umbrella went into the go, i would not put my toilet and went into the call i 6 and the gives me an idea of loans and closing the
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beat and predictable nature of living with out of your head is just one of many complications that homeless women whether you're sleeping rough or in short, 10 or in temporary accommodation without stable housing. it is a roller coaster of emotions, anxiety, trauma, via and trying to survive each and every day. there is a need to re imagine a newest, riley, and vision with the political will to rebuild the hopes that we once had the great astray. leon dream might be, i thought maybe it's time to build a new dream, the
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well next i'll be heading down to brisbin to sing the children and my grandsons. so i'll probably start there for a little bit and catch up. and after that, i'm not sure. can i sit plans i, i kind of fly by the seat in the paints and intuition comes into it as well as like, but now what to do when to do it. and i trust that i'll be traveling as long as i'm able to hi, ms. were a part of my boss, the, the the,
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