00:00Leanne Honeyman knows the fear insecure housing brings.
00:05I was living in my car. I was terrified every day.
00:09This facility in Adelaide CBD helped her to turn her life around.
00:14Now we repurpose for people without shelter who've been hospitalised
00:18but have nowhere to go once their treatment has finished.
00:21I did end up being in the RA, the old RA.
00:24Ended up being in there for about three months.
00:28And then having trouble being discharged
00:32because I had nowhere to be discharged to.
00:34An ongoing situation the State Government and Salvation Army
00:38are aiming to ease with the new 20-bed unit.
00:41If we don't get them into appropriate housing
00:44then people can often bounce back to hospital afterwards.
00:47This can be a stepping stone to long-term secure housing.
00:51Nearly $22 million is being spent on the scheme
00:55with residents also given access to other Salvation Army facilities and services.
01:00It's hoped the program will free up hospital beds
01:03particularly at the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth
01:05with the state's health network struggling to keep up with demand.
01:08We all know that we have patients in the Royal Adelaide Hospital
01:11that no longer need to be there
01:13because their acute phase of their illness has resolved.
01:16We will have a direct ability to bring people here
01:20to get the support that they need, to get the housing that they need
01:24and the wraparound services that they need.
01:26The same services which gave Leanne a new start.
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