Veterans are almost three times as likely to end up on the street but three times less likely to ask for help, a new report has found.
In the past year, almost 6,000 or 5.3 percent of Australia’s half a million veterans, were on the streets, a rate almost three times higher than the general population.
But only 1.1 per cent accessed support services, in contrast to 3.4 per cent of the general population, the report from Housing All Australians found.
“Homelessness among service personnel is not just a personal tragedy but a collective failure of society,” the charity’s director Rob Pradolin said….