Oi! Dev, what are you doing tonight? Wanna have a drink?
Can’t. I’m sleeping in my car. It’s Women’s Car Sleepout night.
Why?
To raise awareness of the massive and growing amount of homeless women and children and the lack of safe housing and services for them.
What homeless women? I don’t see any. The odd bag lady and “got any spare change junkie” but hardly ever.
That’s why we need to raise awareness. Women and children are the largest proportion homeless people. There are over 100,000 homeless in Australia every night and over 50,000 are women and children. And they’re largely invisible. The crazy, drunk or our of control stereotype of a homeless woman, makes us feel better about ourselves because we think “that can never be me”. It’s terrifying, but many of us are only a couple of pay packets away from homelessness.
Invisible? Why are they invisible?
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