An Adelaide incapacity pensioner's revealed she's been power to reside in a tent for weeks, as SA's housing disaster deepens.
The state authorities has admitted there isn't any "fast repair" for the issue that is being made worse by the skyrocketing value of dwelling.
At 36, Meagan by no means anticipated this tent to be the place she'd name house.
"I by no means ever thought I might be on this scenario, it has been completely horrible," she mentioned.
The incapacity pensioner says she's been paying $300 per week for a bit of grass on the West Seashore caravan park.
This was a call she made after round 40 non-public rental purposes have been knocked again over the previous 5 weeks.
"The whole lot retains going up how are individuals going to outlive? The homelessness is simply going to worsen and worse and worse," she mentioned.
The one mom's now one in every of greater than 16,000 on the Public Housing wait listing and fears she's been misplaced within the Authorities system.
SA's Human Providers Minister Nat Cook dinner says it was an issue they inherited after they got here into workplace earlier this 12 months.
"Within the first week of coming into workplace we had 1,500 emails," Cook dinner instructed 9News.
Whereas Cook dinner has referred to as Meghan personally in the present day and provided lodge lodging as a shot time period resolution, discovering a everlasting house might nonetheless take months.
Making issues worse, SA's housing scarcity disaster is being compounded by the rising value of dwelling.
The Authorities says one of many methods to assist with that may be a $1.8 million funding to increase the Gas Value Transparency Scheme.
It one thing the RAA says is saving motorists a median of round $350 a 12 months.
"Should you've obtained two automobiles it is the most important vitality invoice you will have in the home and to have the ability to save 600 bucks on an vitality invoice through the 12 months is a very necessary a part of budgeting in the present day," Mark Borlace of RAA instructed 9News.
However the SA authorities's but to decide to following interstate leads when it come to vitality rebates.