If you spend time walking around the Adelaide's CBD and the parklands you will notice people sleeping rough in Adelaide's CBD. The picture below is of a well frequented location in Hyde Street. Different people come and go here whilst the background sports photo changes occasionally.
There is an earlier post in the old school social documentary approach to urban photography. Photographs about homelessness is an unfashionable approach in contrast to street photography, which is very popular.
People sleeping rough is now quite noticeable in Adelaide, and it has now become accepted as a part of the background fabric of everyday urban life. They are ignored by people walking past.
The rough sleepers are vulnerable, and their survival on the urban margins depends on a network of support services: food vans, health services. and shelters offering showers and breakfast (Baptist Care or the Hutt Street Centre). The latter are stretched for resources. The core problem is the lack of secure social housing in the city.
The housing and rental crisis and the cost of living pressures have led to ever-greater numbers of people camping in Parklands, simply because they have nowhere else to go.