00:00Single mother Ashley Somerville and her two children have lived in three different rental
00:07homes since the end of 2023.
00:10I didn't lose again.
00:13Forced to move repeatedly, she's now paying almost double the rent she paid five years
00:18ago, more than half her income.
00:21And the lease is up again soon.
00:22It's just again facing that unknown insecurity of not knowing, is it going to be renewed?
00:28Are we going to have to move again?
00:30From Broome in the north.
00:32It's really expensive to live here.
00:33Yeah, you can hardly afford it and you can understand why people are living on the streets
00:38and sleeping in parks.
00:41And south to Esperance.
00:43We have families that are overcrowded because you have two or three families in one house,
00:50which then you get all the other social problems that come with that, the domestic violence.
00:55West Australians are feeling the impact of housing pressures and higher prices.
01:00Everything's gone up, housing in particular is completely beyond all the young people.
01:05An election forum discussing how to stop people falling through the cracks.
01:09We can't simply build our way out of this very human crisis in the short or medium term.
01:15Brad said we simply can't build our way out of a housing crisis, but we have to try.
01:21We need more homes.
01:22In the meantime, people remain vulnerable.
01:25I had to call an ambulance just a little while ago and I've got an invoice for that.
01:30I can't afford it.
01:32One bill highlighting the financial precipice confronting many voters at this election as
01:37they prepare to decide who will lead the state into the future.
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