'Being safe is crucial': Acute mental patients forced to wait up to eight years for housing

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Less than 10 per cent of public housing applicants are able to access long-term, stable public housing in the NT, including seriously ill mental health patients, according to NT Shelter.

 

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I waited 12 to 15 years through 3 applications. Housing is not safe, the worst environments I have ever lived in, worse than boarding houses, only not living under the same roof as criminals and drug addicts, probably living in the same block though as criminals and drug addicts.

the most corruted department

Try ten years or more for some .. and they’re not acute mentally ill people

I waited 15 years over 3 applications.

I waited almost double that.

news_australian We have a lot of Australians needing housing assistance but it seems illegal arrivals are more important?

news_australian Send them to Manus or Naru - Dr Phelps might care then!!

Australians in need BEFORE refugees and immigrants. And if Australian companies want more immigrants for economic reasons, then let companies more in tax for infrastructure!

Meh, boat people take them all, after they checkout of their motels.

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