The cost of homelessness in WA’s public hospitals and how the state could save millions
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Taxpayers pay upwards of $18 million a year to treat the mental health of homeless people in Western Australia, with research showing rough sleepers spend a combined 11,500 days in hospital every year.
But that cost could be drastically cut, saving millions of dollars, if rough sleepers were offered a place to call home, researchers from the University of Western Australia have found.
Brendon Jones at a homeless camp on James Street in Northbridge.
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