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tv   The Hidden Homeless  Deutsche Welle  April 22, 2024 2:15pm-3:01pm CEST

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coming up next off to the break at the top, the documentary on the growing problem of homelessness, facing many developed nations. don't forget a website to speed up the dot com to complete this temporary strategy team building, reduce the, do you big companies play a role in the destruction of the rain forest? the letter for luxury casa, often comes from illegal capital funds in the m, as in yet the supply chains does matter to the view industry. the illegal leather stats may said on dw good mm.
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okay, this house on the right hand side is where our house was. design tree actually same tree. so i thing here um, no big country of the facts. they used to be full of fruit, but they would come rachel not and i was very happy and life was pretty good. it was pretty good. the
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it happened suddenly my hot basically said to me one day, we don't have any money list and but then you 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 as you say, so saturday and he said, we don't have any money left, renews at this time 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 when uh is good the uh because in the same the
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so many years are in a house is known as the great astray in dream of the police was that high minus shift would lead to a better life homer presents more than just breaks in more no. more than a roof of your head. it is a shelter, a safe place to live, giving a security and a sense of belonging astray. it 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 shadid 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 of liberal agenda was wondering, able to think that people homeless because it's toward 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 or table things, these homeless people have done something wrong, or that is the easy to work hard or they should have shouldn't be on drugs or
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whatever. 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 weeks later i was 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 i had a 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 in my car. the
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g column of her class vacate, was moving and 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 a stray is 1st significant female science fiction. it's a popular story of colonial disposition oppression and the resistance to the invite of settlers. i offend some of you. that's no surprise that if it was defend somebody, this land was taken by force in a vonage genocide, a wall. every square inch of the astronomy and 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 most black and clear aboriginal 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 drummond winter. i found a studio and my uncle. decent when not too much for me. of the 3 years and 3 months. my turn to me 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 would not join him in meditating and has the meditation. hon . i had a harassment from maine, the mayor landlord to and i did not time with a bunch of flowers on my doorstep, uninvited and i pay rent. so if just if me be i have actually moved in an account for nearly 3 years now. today is the lucky day. no way in sofa. the
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a good thing, a big stock control over the long term small, most serious 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 cold 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. i've seen 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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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 50 has been identified as homeless on the brink of homelessness. these women, not only 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, why women
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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 good? you're not going to see many women actually sleeping well because they were sleeping, they con, will sleep out of how many con women wouldn't even tell their families what they're experiencing. you know, i think everyone would have been so surprised if we said that women in the fifty's is the fastest 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 started from a conversation with my daughter was at the time when the, when the street station grand whole was in the news hadn't been empty for 10 years and below a table sleeping rough and said to have many other buildings and no matter empty.
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and from that housing illustrate is really evolve. health i've shelter is a short term solution. he's not a solution for the housing a long time 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 with office american, very back in the i'm not going to be the total i'm in here with the google, the profit of the industry. we can refurbish these buildings for short term use 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 upscale 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 past, a certain age experience counts for nothing. apparently, it's all about disposability, a bird amount of money. it's consumers in the same way young and 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 i'm not the me. i always knew or thought i was i just didn't know such places exist is i didn't know about women's housing because that wasn't in my experience. so wasn't relevant to me. that was the whole women in
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awful situation. so i had to leave domestic violence or poor single moms trying to bring up kids and like barely carpeting 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 old age pension show may be. but of course eat deeds. 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 lab for and they, you uh, on the doorstep of homelessness. i looked in sydney for there's a news as an advertising for many years creative direct to a very high powered job, 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 charlie mos on that is like conflicts. i've been on n t f o at t drugs. i've been and also things been slaves and 17 hours a day on buddy sarah full. and it's very 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 know and find some way to leave. started work again, got myself in apartment, lost my job, and retail could not get another one. just could know, 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 friends 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 that women's housing 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 felt very close to my grandmother. and that's the 9 that came to me.
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i'll call her rising. the i've seen house was not homeless since 2019, and i bought the bossing december 2000 nice thing. so pretty much all i have lived in who ever since says my head 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 that they have, but they busy with a lot. so this is my home and this was my little lots and lots good. the, well,
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i used to think i need to hi needs to be a lady on your house. and then after saving 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 to just do it. well, this is a, this is, this is my life now. and, and i think from the noise or 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 spots. so i think you can do. she's done a little kilometers. you know 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 a combination 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 trans
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t thought times my house in bryson. it's not there anymore for me. but it comes into my head a lot more than i actually realize. i think almost that they moved from house to building side. so from here in new port, 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 was something my comfort time. it's scary. i actually didn't realize the of the oldest homelessness is happening for women, 55, and either i know that i'm not my comfort sign, that high bicycle. my apartment now i hope
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that i want is a has 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 think found out from the silly set up. but in who will she made it quite clear that myself and my brother
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would have nothing of hers as a whole. and the house has been left 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 is awesome. i i just feel that it's a family time. and as i don't have family, per se, probably not to acknowledge it too much or think too much about it. and probably
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treat it as and not the di 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 said don't analyze written a commission play of identity. julie looked down, it's about 4 people, 2 of them homeless, 2 of them kind of middle class trapped in disused trying tunnel, doing a pandemic outbreak apocalypse. and i pitched that before because 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 high. that seems like a better one. if anything, having been homeless has left me a little bit paranoid of something going wrong 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 for 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 liking 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 that i've built up from nothing to doing okay. starting from experience as well
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traveling in this old 100 you know how the whole gas also known as how the whole gas, the unstoppable but she's is now really though i don't. well, she's lost it outside, but he is my okay. 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 of buckling onto the pressure to many people. how am i in a shape is a drain out of reach 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 for coming to the opening of god house in the last year or 2 thirds of the people who were accessing homelessness services were females. and the main reason for accessing our 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 farm, or becoming homeless and low transitional housing like this 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 that. then when i came here, i am sick to die and feed safe and everything is okay. i got married that the age of 21. very sick too. we have one properties and kind of set the server and 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 he used to push me out of the door,
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send all that. i have to see for a long time and outside the house throughout my life. i love the family and this is the 1st time i came from the family and living alone. but still i see all of them i, these the days have been so for my family, i seen 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 i'm happy here.
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i don't really get lonely as such that it hasn't been assign a kind of lost 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 machine with 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'll get all i can imagine that living in the van will have his difficulties. you know, i'll get a step to step up here. just little things like that. so yeah, i honestly don't know. hopefully i would find a quiet place just to just to be of
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the 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 or 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 where i just want to stay here the my home, my, my friends, the
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a little 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 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 the plays with my, on my phone. that's a very important factor of want to me. i have no drama with sleeping in my car and i have no drama and preparing my muse autos to 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 as is usually used as a retreat center due to the corporate 19 looked on the personal ones. there's normally a retreat center the he kept building constellations, so it's m to spending. so he offered us to stay here. due 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 for 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 reorganize 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 a given nearly 3 more weeks. that's a lot of uncertainty i'm if it's a flight of the day when i have to leave again and all to put it all back in my con and storage, the
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so i spend my time here and the bed was us. i was, i couldn't. these isn't so i wanted to if i don't really take yeah that's it stays why and size my visa, it gets maybe i hit that one and i just sondra is good anymore. so that means i has to has a meticulous plan. so like, i would not put my umbrella went into the go, i would not put myself in the west and for 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 without a roof of your head is just one of many complications that homeless women whether you are sleeping rough or in short term, or in temporary accommodation with out 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 stay 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 state of the paints and intuition comes into it as well as like i know what to do when to do it. and i trust that i'll be traveling as long as i'm able to hi miss, we're a partner with us. the, the
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