ROUGH sleeping has reached crisis proportions on the Mornington Peninsula and, as winter starts to bite, Southern Peninsula Community Support will host a Winter SleepOut on Friday 31 July, to raise awareness and much-needed funds for its critical frontline work. SPCS CEO Jeremy Maxwell says the Mornington Peninsula has the highest number of rough sleepers in Victoria, and the escalating homelessness crisis in the area is stretching capacity to respond. “We are seeing increasing numbers of people sleeping rough every day, and we are completely overstretched. Seven people have died on the foreshore in the last 18 months. We receive…
Thursday, July 2
