A new study suggests that young couchsurfers could have worse mental health and greater risk of suicide than those sleeping on the streets.
Preliminary results from the research project suggest that Brisbane couchsurfers are twice as likely to describe their mental health as “poor”.
Couchsurfers remain a hidden form of homelessness for young australians with over 20,000 reporting to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare between 2013-2014.