There are 18,000 people waiting for social housing in western Sydney, with politicians accused of paying ‘lip service’ to the problem
Sally’s* voice trembles as she explains how desperately she needs housing right now, and how abandoned Sydney’s housing crisis has left her.“I feel so abandoned, I feel like I’ve even let my children down.”Sally, who asked to remain anonymous, is in desperate need for social housing, the kind of housing that is almost impossible to find in Sydney right now.
“I applied for around 37 houses and was rejected for every single one. I was nicely told to give up,” she says. “I was told there was no point because no landlord is going to look at me, that I was wasting my time. There are now 18,377 individuals and families waiting in the region. Many are in the queue in areas with wait times of over 10 years.
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