LANDLORDS returning to WA from interstate are adding further pressure to Perth’s housing crisis, with competition driving rental prices up, and low-income renters out.

FIFTY SIX sleeping bags laid out on the front steps of WA’s Parliament on Tuesday laid bare the grim toll of WA’s housing crisis during an evening vigil to its latest casualty, Alana Garlett.

The family of Alana Garlett are calling for a vigil at Parliament House to raise awareness of her death, and the 56 other homeless people who died on Perth’s streets last year.

Noongar mother, Alana Garlett, was the most recent homeless person to die on Perth’s streets, after new data revealed 56 homeless citizens were lost last year. 

FREMANTLE LIBRARY has won a state award for a program linking vulnerable users with support services.

A PERTH hotel housing campers from Fremantle’s dismantled Tent City, is forced to kick out its 15 remaining homeless clients, with a $40,000 bill no one will pay.

A Perth hotel has been left with an outstanding $30,000 bill after government said its unwilling to take responsibility for 11 homeless people who ended up in the hotel’s rooms.

The charred remains of Tent City in East Perth are now almost completely uninhabited.

In, what residents suspect was an arson attack, Tent City in East Perth goes up in flames, turning the fenced-in campsite into a potential death trap.

The Department of Communities forks out $3.8 million for folks in Tent City in Perth’s CBD, but not the rough sleepers on their Freo doorstep, facing the toughest time of year.

Women living in ‘Tent City’ on Northbridge’s fringe have called for urgent shelter to protect them from escalating rates of sexual assault and violence.

Sex workers have been left facing homelessness and hunger due to the impact of Covid-19, sparking calls for the government to provide more assistance.

Tenancy WA has called on the McGowan government to extend a moratorium on evictions during the Covid pandemic or face a “flood of homelessness”.