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Housing Plus reports increased demand for homelessness services in Orange

Tanya Marschke
Updated August 4 2022 - 3:54pm, first published 12:30pm
HOUSING SERVICE: Member for Orange Phil Donato, Housing Plus Homelessness and Adult Housing Support Service team leader Toni Parker, and Housing Plus head of Customer Services Liz Stamatelos in a crisis accommodation room in Orange. Photo: JUDE KEOGH
HOUSING SERVICE: Member for Orange Phil Donato, Housing Plus Homelessness and Adult Housing Support Service team leader Toni Parker, and Housing Plus head of Customer Services Liz Stamatelos in a crisis accommodation room in Orange. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Families are facing up to a 10 year wait for a home in Orange amid an acute housing crisis and unprecedented demand for homeless services that is seeing people fleeing domestic violence and renters aged in their 70s particularly at risk.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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