Homeless Australians fall into three broad groups, including those who are: sleeping rough (living on the streets); living in temporary accommodation, such as crisis accommodation and refuges or staying with friends or relatives; and staying in boarding or rooming houses with no secure lease and no private facilities. See ChamberlainChris and MacKenzieDavid, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Census Analytic Program: Counting the Homeless (2006).
National Housing Supply Council, 2nd State of Supply Report, April 2010, 103 (15 March 2012) http://nhsc.org.au/supply.html.
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See Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Government-Funded Specialist Homelessness Services: SAAP National Data Collection Annual Report 2010–11: Australia (2011) 12, which showed that domestic or family violence was the single most common reason why people sought support from government-funded specialist homelessness services.