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Sydney families forced onto the streets as the recession hits

By Gemma Jones

The Daily Telegraph

May 25, 2009 12:01am

• Jobless families have nowhere to go
• Charities say situation is dire
• Many "two pay cheques away" from streets

THEY'RE the nouveau poor - thousands of ordinary families who have lost their jobs and their homes as the recession begins to bite.

Just a year ago they were living middle class lives with good jobs and in comfortable neighbourhoods.

Now, thousands of families in Sydney are jobless and have nowhere to go - and charities say thousands more are just "two pay cheques" away from a similar fate.

St Vincent de Paul has recorded a six-fold increase in homeless families looking for help, the biggest increase in 120 years.

Sydney's western suburbs have been hardest hit, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Dr Andy Marks, a researcher with St Vincent de Paul, said the most terrifying trend was that working families were now being made homeless.

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