Journalist Therese Hall's thesis about homeless single women, who worked all their lives, married, raised families, ran businesses and owned homes.

However, numbers have been increasing since 2011 which put them into a constant house-sitting situation.

Most of them are neither eligible for subsidies from the government nor getting themselves into social housing.

70% of customers using housing assistance products such as bond loans, rent grants are women. This could be an alternative but not necessarily helping them out of the crack