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The Salvation Army’s latest report, Invisible in the SuperCity, was triggered by staff seeing many working families left homeless because their wages couldn’t pay for housing
Pauline’s story
Pauline has three young children and a baby due in two months.
Their rent became too high for her husband’s wages, and the family were left couch-surfing and living in a single room with friends.
“But it was just so full. We even had people living in the lounge and the thing that really concerned me the most was the smoking in the house, the drinking, and we can’t say much ’cause it’s not our house.”
The family even spent some nights in cars, with the children told they were going on a camping adventure. Read more
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