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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 12/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/759">Jay Fletcher</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Nationwide, <a href=http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbytitle/2B580BB732AD4B49CA2574B9001F81F3?OpenDocument">more than 105,000 people were homeless</a> on any given night in 2006. About <a href="http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/youth-homelessness.html">36,000 were under 25</a>, and 22,000 of these were teenagers. Middle-aged women and their children have also increasingly filled out the statistics, due to their lower incomes and the lack of support services for victims of domestic violence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51868" target="_blank">read more</a></p>