Jana Favero, deputy chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says:
"They've been living in accommodation, to be told one week, you're going to be evicted, and then they're not evicted. They turn up to hospitals to get treatment, sometimes they don't get treatment. So it's been ten years of absolute limbo and uncertainty, of family separation. So they've really faced every single hurdle imaginable that we could put in front of someone who's just trying to rebuild their lives and finding somewhere safe. It also means that they don't necessarily have enough money to eat, sometimes they don't have enough money to get on a bus, we've seen the deteriorating conditions in Port Moresby."
The federal government is offering limited financial support but it comes with certain conditions that many cannot meet without becoming homeless.
