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DARK SECRETS: Troubling crackdowns no fix to homelessness crisis | Rare Historical Photos

Local councils are forcibly removing the homeless instead of offering support, a researcher says. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian councils are bowing to pressure to remove rather than support their homeless populations, a leading researcher says.

Homelessness is now significant, acute or very acute for two-thirds of the nation's local councils, up from about 10 per cent in the 2010s, a University of New South Wales study has revealed.

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