Homeless form January 31st - this Friday.

Hi everyone. I have been putting off making this post for a long time because I was hoping it would never have to come to it and it is something that I am extremely upset and embarrassed about - I am sitting crying as I write this post. I’m not one to ask for help, if it was just me I would go for a tent somewhere, but I have my baby girl and I do not want this for her. I am currently in a situation all intent and purposes I am homeless and have been since March. I’ve been looking for a rental property since then for my daughter and myself. I have been staying with my mum in her retirement village (For over 50’s) since then and management have been wonderful and letting us stay here however, due to some better old residents who have nothing better to do with their time have made complaints about us staying here and those complaints have gone to head office. We have been told that we have to be out of Mum’s place by this Friday, 31st January. I don’t want to be here obviously, living in a retirement village, but it was a safe room for my baby. We have nowhere to go due to this rental market being what it is. I couldn’t say how many properties I’ve applied for - would be well over 125 properties in this time. Obviously I would prefer it two bedroom but would even and have been applying one bedroom. Two beroom properties start at about $400, and one bedrooms are around $375-$400 which is just insane. I have enough savings behind me to pay a few months in advance which I’ve offered property managers but they can’t accept it due to legislation that was passed last year. Property managers look at your income and rule of thumb is rent shouldn’t be more than about 30% of your weekly income. Being on Centrelink and not working my income weekly works out to be around 40 to 45%. And that’s what I’ve had to apply for as that’s what the properties cost. Every property I’ve applied for is that 30-45% hence haven’t been offered a property even though I can afford it. So I’m putting this out there just to see if anyone knows of anywhere that may have availability. Again I’m not being picky. I’m just looking for somewhere safe to put a roof over my daughter’s head, even for a short period of time while still trying to find something long term. I know that I am not the only one in this state in this predicament, I am very well aware of that. It is just that I know I have failed my daughter and it kills me that we are where we are, but this is my reality. Again, I just ask if anyone knows of anything, anywhere on the Northside if you could reach out I would be eternally grateful. All love always. 💜