The rise in housing stress is leading to households sacrificing meals and poorer health outcomes.
Housing
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Over the decades, neighbouring structures - including the former police station - were demolished and paved.
History
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"It's more than just a bed for the night. It's a place where people can be cared for and be shown warmth and understanding."
Bass Coast Shire
A previous proposal to subdivide the land was refused by South Gippsland Council in 2024, but the latest DA has been approved.
South Gippsland Shire
There were 7,520 people in Gippsland looking for social or low-income units in 2025.
The Monitor asked Inverloch locals if they'd seen a rise of people experiencing homelessness.
"Drouin’s in desperate need for anything to give people shelter.”
If you spend 30-37.9 percent of your income on rent then it is considered unaffordable.
Out of the two million flood-prone houses across Australia, at least 70 percent have had their values reduced by water inundation risk.
“The data reveals the magnitude and urgency of a problem that our current system cannot adequately address,” Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin said.
The number of households sleeping rough in cars, tents or in the open in Gippsland soared by 32 percent over the last year.
Around 130 people were homeless in the area, one councillor said.
Council
When your next-door neighbour changes every night, how do you ask them to keep it down?
“People are dumb enough to build houses [that will] fall into the ocean”
Environment
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Even those earning good coin can easily find themselves under “rental stress”
Cost-of-living
In Baw Baw Shire median home prices went up 42 percent in five years.
