00:05This may look like an IKEA warehouse, but it's a shopping experience like no other,
00:13where people coming out of homelessness can furnish their entire home and it's all free.
00:20You might want to have two sofas and a couple of chairs or you might like to have just one
00:26big sofa.
00:27Yeah, that's good.
00:28Blew my mind, yeah.
00:29I was thinking we're probably going to go into the back of an old dusty vinnies.
00:33We never say someone's trash is someone's treasure.
00:37We want people to have really beautiful things.
00:40We'll take these, yeah.
00:42This is ReLove, a social enterprise furnishing 25 homes a week for people coming out of crisis.
00:53They may be young adults leaving the care system, former prisoners.
00:58It was actually quite a lot like jail, you know, just nothing bare, empty.
01:02Or women and children escaping domestic violence.
01:06People are leaving in the middle of the night with a bag, some clothes.
01:10In Australia, people are living in poverty in every neighbourhood.
01:15It's a hidden crisis, right?
01:17We don't see that people are sleeping on the floor.
01:19That shows you, doesn't it?
01:21ReLove is the Oz harvest of the furniture worlds, finding a home for unwanted furniture.
01:28You know, we're talking about, like, football fields of furniture being diverted from landfill.
01:33You know, we're an environmental solution connecting lots of excess stuff to people who need it.
01:39Like, just having furniture in my home has set me up to, you know, do so much.
01:44I got a second chance at life.
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