Stan Boreham had been sleeping rough on-and-off for 37 years until he was found in an Adelaide car park. Census data shows a jump in the number of people in Stan's situation — but support groups believe it could be significantly higher.
abc.net.au/news/homelessness-census-data-2021-under-represnts-south-australia/102163702Stan Boreham had been sleeping rough on-and-off for 37 years until he was found at a Glenelg car park in Adelaide's south-west.
Toward Home Alliance senior manager Shaya Nettle said the Census data "under represents and under reflects" what support workers are seeing on the ground. She said over half of people who accessed support from her service were women and more than a quarter were children.
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