Federal Housing Minister, Julie Collins, has described the premature deaths of hundreds of homeless “completely unacceptable”.
The comments from Collins follows a Guardian Australia investigation of 627 homelessness deaths, which found a three-decade life expectancy gap and an average age of death of just 44.
Independent senator David Pocock said the investigation should trigger a doubling of the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) to boost social and affordable housing supply.
