Thank you Eko. I suppose we all tend to view the situation from our personal homefront, but this time, I think world wide the homeless situation has happened so quickly and easily, to people who just didn't and couldn't have seen it coming.

Was just saying to my husband this morning, that renters lose in every which way, not just in hikes in rent, but often they live in what I see as substandard housing. There needs to be legislation about that in the first instance, given the cost of energy.

I was reading about a family living in northern NSW where the floods were. She has had to move out of her rental home because it has been deemed unsafe. She is in a motel and her landlord won't give her a rental break. That is so wrong. Renters shouldn't be bearing the brunt of a landlord's investment.