This week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its 2021 snapshot of homelessness across the nation, which shows the number of Tasmanians experiencing homelessness is continuing to rise.
On census night in 2021, 2,350 people in Tasmania said they were experiencing homelessness, compared with 1,622 on census night in 2016.
That is an extra 728 people, or an increase of 44.8 per cent.
In 2021, 569 people aged 18 or under were homeless on census night, and 325 of those were children aged under 12 years.
Of those, 13 children were sleeping rough, the rest were in some form of accommodation, although still without a permanent home.
