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melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØmonthsā© ago

Iā€™m feeling like shit in so many levels.

Homelessness, mental illness, Australia being unequal for vulnerable people

Thereā€™s an aggressive mentally ill homeless man thatā€™s been coming around my place for ages and now heā€™s sleeping on a bench right outside my window. So I get to be too scared to put my bin out and he gets to freeze because itā€™s not safe for me to approach or help him. Hate the guyā€™s guts (heā€™s aggressively had a go at me before and is virulently homophobic) but I donā€™t want to watch him freeze or have to deal with him. Iā€™ve been calling the cops for months, psych triage, the local homeless services, nothing has been working. The best I have is from today - Launch agreeing to pass a ā€˜sleep siteā€™ on to their outreach team to check. But they donā€™t come out at night and I donā€™t know where this scary stranger goes in the day. He also drinks which might exclude him from dorm style shelters (which donā€™t apparently exist in Australia the way you think of them?) and may also not have the awareness to accept help. Itā€™s just one of those deteriorating revolving door situations that never ever gets solved. Australiaā€™s systems are broken. Very surprising for a so called rich country.

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