Client Profile and Statistics
Just one or a combination of factors may cause a person to be homeless:
- Mental illness
- Alcoholism
- Other substance abuse
- Lack of affordable accommodation
- Physical handicaps
- Gambling
- Inability to budget
- Family breakdown
- Unemployment
- Discharge from institutions such as hospitals and gaols
- Loneliness
- Social isolation
- Lack of family network or support
- Institutionalisation as children
- Physical conditions including HIV/AIDS.
Children and families also find themselves homeless...
Issues of confidentiality and privacy restrict our ability to accurately categorise clients into groups. According to a 1998 report, 75% of all homeless people using inner city hostels and refuges have had one or more of the following disorders:
- Alcohol and drug addiction
- Mood and anxiety illness
- And schizophrenia.
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