230,000 seek help as housing affordability bites

By Rachel Browne
Updated December 18 2012 - 1:08pm, first published 12:20pm

Almost a quarter of a million Australians - or one in 98 people - requested help from welfare agencies because they were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released on Tuesday.

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