If you need emergency accommodation

This is a guide for people who are at risk of becoming, or who are, homeless, as well as for people needing temporary crisis accommodation in an emergency.

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Urgent accomodation

If you urgently need accommodation, call Link2home on 1800 152 152 for an information and telephone referral service open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) is one of the state's main providers of crisis accommodation and emergency housing, catering for:

those who are homeless or at risk of losing their home
low income earners in need of social or affordable housing to rent
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
people experiencing family or domestic violence.

Government agencies are also supported by:

not-for-profit operators like Ask Izzy
charities and similar organisations.

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