00:00 This facility will provide a bed to 50 men who are currently without one.
00:07 Living in tents, they're couch surfing, they're living in cars and unfortunately some of them
00:12 are living under bridges.
00:13 It will help a portion of the over 2300 Tasmanians who said they were homeless on Census night.
00:20 But the Government's released a new strategy to end homelessness altogether by 2043.
00:25 We understand that the strategy sets out a high level aspirational target but we think
00:30 it's important to be aspirational in terms of the targets that we set.
00:33 We're talking about making sure that incidents of homelessness are very rare, they are only
00:40 ever very brief and they don't reoccur.
00:43 Colony 47's Mara House provides medium term housing to young women under 20.
00:49 The residents are supposed to leave after nine months but a lack of social housing means
00:53 that's not always possible.
00:55 We often do keep young women here a bit longer because there is not at the moment other places
01:02 for them to go.
01:04 The service provider says the strategy is short on detail.
01:08 If you want to have no homelessness by 2043, surely the best way to do that is have early
01:14 intervention strategies with young people from now and I feel this has been a really
01:20 big missed opportunity.
01:22 This is the latest in a long line of strategies about how to ease Tasmania's housing crisis.
01:27 It hinges on the Government meeting its target of 10,000 more social homes by 2032.
01:33 But it's currently falling behind.
01:35 We wouldn't have put it in there if we didn't think it was deliverable.
01:38 Again, it's a target that we need to be held accountable to and we need to tick off the
01:42 progress towards that target but we absolutely believe it's achievable.
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