My mother has been living in social housing in Ballina since 2021. She suffers from mental illness, learning disabilities and physical disabilities (chronic fatigue) that impact her ability to work.

September 26th she was informed via letter that she has to vacate her social housing flat by January 6th as the landlord is selling and that Northern Rivers Housing would assist in locating new social housing for her. She also received a verbal agreement from her previous case manager that housing would be guaranteed, which has not been honoured.

We have today been informed by Northern Rivers Housing that they cannot supply her with social housing within Tweed, Ballina and Lismore districts and she is at risk of homelessness.

I spoke to DCJ asking for temporary accomodation and advice which I received no help. I was essentially told to get fucked and told to call Link2Home "when" she is homeless for urgent accomodation as there is no adequate housing within Tweed and the northern rivers.

What a fucking joke. How did we come to this? Why have we failed our most disadvantaged?

I'm working in reaching out to other social housing services within the Northern Rivers and Newcastle (where I live) which she doesn't want to do, but I can't let my mother become homeless.

As a last case scenario I will have to displace my current housemate (great guy) and ask him to leave, just so she has a place to live.

Fuck

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who replied with helpful advice and I apologise I haven't responded to you all. It's been a very stressful 24 hours. I will be fighting this tooth and nail until she finds appropriate housing and I will update this for anyone interested in updates