Christine is in stable housing now, but for a while she was among a 'growing crisis' of working homeless

Christine smiles when she thinks about what having a stable home means to her now. Women represent a larger number of people employed and homeless CHP CEO Deborah Di Natale said the increase in working Victorians experiencing homelessness was "a frightening new front in the state's crippling housing crisis". It found 62 of Victoria's 79 local government areas saw per capita increases in the number of employed people accessing homelessness services in the 2022/23 financial year. "Despite women representing 58 per cent of people seeking assistance from homelessness services in Victoria, they account for more than 70 per cent of employed people seeking assistance," it noted. "With just $5.6 million in next month's budget, the government could relieve enormous pressure on renters, and reduce welfare, justice and health costs that more homelessness leads to," Ms Di Natale said.