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Welcome to Tent City, the underside of WA's coronavirus success story

Oct 24, 2020
33:38

The thin walls of Neville Riley’s makeshift tent do little to block the constant sound of passing cars and trains.

And if he was living in a different city when COVID-19 hit Australia, chances are Neville would have been given emergency accommodation months ago.

This week, Alex Mann investigates whether a historic opportunity to address homelessness in Western Australia has been lost.

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