sleeping rough

 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.