On riverbanks and in parkland camps, Australians are sleeping rough through a dire housing crunch

In Wagga Wagga – where a baby died this month after the mother gave birth in a tent – homelessness is rising, services are slammed and those without a home feel stuck

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Lincoln Curtis says if you ask him a simple question, you get a simple answer.

Why is he homeless? There aren’t enough houses, he says. What does he need? A job. What is he doing about these things? Waiting for one, looking for the other.