00:00This car park is where Cherie Finity and her son would escape to, fleeing domestic violence,
00:07forced to live out of a boot in the middle of winter.
00:10Unless I was being hurt that day and in severe need of accommodation right then and then,
00:19they weren't going to help me, so that's why I spent so much time in my car.
00:23It's taken years, but Miss Finity's life has turned around.
00:28She now volunteers, making care packs filled with the items she once desperately needed.
00:35So I think to myself, what would I like if I was going into a new home and I was starting fresh?
00:42I'd like those little extra things to make it more of a home.
00:46And there's no shortage of people lining up for help.
00:50Over the last number of months we've seen a huge increase in the amount of people
00:56who just cannot make ends meet.
01:00This organisation runs monthly hubs, providing food hampers, sanitary products, haircuts and dog washes.
01:07I'm all nice and clean, thank you for my wash.
01:10It's all the things that would form part of somebody's essential daily life
01:14if you were living in a property managing with life.
01:18Online support forums with hundreds of comments suggest that when the sun goes down,
01:23more and more people are spending the night in car parks around Perth,
01:27having been turned away from homeless shelters that are at capacity.
01:31Domestic violence is the leading cause for homelessness for women,
01:34and Miss Finity felt stuck in the cycle.
01:37He would tell me to get out, but I wasn't allowed to take my daughter with me,
01:41so therefore I would keep going back and keep staying because I just didn't want to leave my daughter.
01:46She still hasn't found a house, living with two of her five children in a caravan park,
01:52but hopes one day her family will be together, under the same roof.
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