Thursday, March 1, 2012

NSW: $1 million to help break cycle of homelessness

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NSW: $1 million to help break cycle of homelessness

SYDNEY, Jan 12 AAP - A major charity organisation today received a $1 million cashinjection to help Sydney's homeless break the cycle that keeps them on city streets.

NSW Minister for Community Services Carmel Tebbutt announced $960,000 funding overtwo years would be provided to St Vincent de Paul under the supported accommodation assistanceprogram (SAAP).

The money, a joint donation from the Federal and NSW governments, would go to helppeople break the cycle of homelessness before it became an entrenched way of life, MsTebbutt said.

She said hundreds of homeless people in inner-Sydney …

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