Bogie - where are your examples of women with children living in cars to escape domestic violence?
Karnal - I researched this years ago, and the facts are as I've stated. The reality is that while there may be one-night accommodations more readily available for men - Mathew Talbot or whatever - the reason for that is that women receive preference in public housing and have any number of refuges to go to, and there are far fewer homeless women than men in reality.
Let me take you by the hand, and walk you through the streets of Sydney... I'll show you something that's bound to change your mind.......
My dear child - I've BEEN homeless after a lifetime of hard work, and owning two homes..... due to a number of circumstances but mostly related to the unreliability of women and their often certified insanity .... I've told the story before - split with my children's mother who is cousin to a Hollywood director, sold my then home to fund my children's future and started out again.... a couple of years later married a woman who worked for the State Premier, who turned out (not the Premier but that's arguable if you know the d1ck - he's probably just a creature of opportunity for self) to be a schizophrenic on meds, which only become apparent when she stopped them.
Two homes - two gone - then collapse of the company where I was earning the equivalent rate of pay as a backbencher was, then a serious injury that put me on crutches and walking stick for three years during which nobody wanted to know me, then illness....
Do NOT question me about homeless men v homeless women. I've been there and I can assure you the vast majority are men, and there are precious little spaces for them - certainly not in the long term.
Now I'm back on my feet - took a lot of work and nearly killed me - but I will say it again - women are considered homeless even if they are staying with a friend or relative, they get preference into public housing, and there are many more spaces available for them on a per capita basis than there are for men.
There endeth the lesson.