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NEWS Sleep bus to arrive The long-awaited sleep bus for homeless men is due to begin its trip from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast on January 11. WORDS: Caitlin Zerafa. After months of waiting a date has finally been set for the arrival of a bus that will provide shelter for men living rough across the Sunshine Coast community. Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre’s Derek Hopper says a sleep bus to house up to 20 men per night is 99 per cent complete and due to arrive in the region on January 14. In an effort to address the Sunshine Coast’s growing homeless emergency, the centre last year began a fundraising campaign to fit out a sleep bus after it identified a lack of male crisis accommodation. Since then, a fundraising campaign was also launched to fund a pink bus to sleep women and children. Mr Hopper says after multiple COVID-induced delays in Melbourne, where the bus has been since April 2021 to be reconfigured, and border closures that have hampered the effort to transport the bus into Queensland, the date for its arrival has been revealed. Final spray painting job for the sleep bus “The bus is due to begin its trip un on January 11 ready for a celebration at Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre on January 14,” Mr Hopper says. “The bus is just waiting on a few final touches and the signage, so it is 99.99 per cent finished.” Once the first sleep bus arrives, the second bus will be taken back down to Victoria to be transformed into the women’s and children’s bus. Each bus costs $100,000 to transform and the Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre has been overwhelmed with community support in raising money to transform the two buses, which were also donated. Once transformed, each bus will provide a safe lockable pod with a television, charging ports and a toilet. The most recent donation came from local business owner David Krauter, who has witnessed the homeless living on the streets around his office premises. Mr Krauter, from Websites That Sell, is donating $5000 towards the sleep bus project. “There’s just not enough funding to support the homeless and the testimony to that is just seeing them in the park near our previous office,” Mr Krauter says. “We had people with stashes of their belongings all around our premises at the time. “Just imagine not being able to sleep because you’re worrying that your life and safety is at stake, but also that your belongings are going to be gone the next morning when you wake up.” A recent Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre survey showed there were 62 people sleeping rough each night within a five-kilometre radius of the centre. Males make up 76 per cent of the homeless population and females make up 24 per cent. Mr Hopper says with the rental crisis worsening, each week the centre was seeing more people in need of support. “It’s got worse,” he adds. “We’ve got families with two or three kids now sleeping in their cars because landlords want to sell their place or put the rent up $200 a week and wages have not gone up to match that. “It’s no longer just those with a low income who are homeless, it’s hitting the middle and working class. “If you are married or de facto and one of you loses your job, that’s it – you’re maybe a couple of payments away from being homeless. “We have people walk through the door in tears, they just don’t know what to do.” Want more news daily? Visit our sister site, sunshinecoastnews.com.au, for free up-to-date news. 20 My Weekly Preview | December 9, 2021 myweeklypreview.com.au
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