Homeless in Melbourne – the crisis an election can't cloak

Victorian government’s efforts under fire as scores of people are turned away from homelessness services each day

On a weekday afternoon during Victoria’s state election campaign, James is slumped against the front of a 7-Eleven store in Melbourne’s CBD, coughing and spluttering but mostly just lamenting.

“It’s got to the point where I’ve given up trying to look for housing,” he says, sitting about 50 metres from the state parliament. “They always say sorry, ‘There’s nothing available’.”

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