People are finding themselves homeless for the first time due to the rental squeeze | 7.30

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Published 2022-05-26

In Australia the COVID pandemic saw a wave of internal migration to regional communities where affordable housing was already scarce. As Ella Archibald-Binge reports, some people with jobs are finding themselves homeless for the first time.

And in a postscript to this story, Queensland's housing department stepped in to put Tailah and her family in a motel for two weeks.

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