Last week was National Homelessness Week and Orana Support Service chief executive officer Tina Reynolds believes it a great way to expose those who may be unaware to the problems people are facing in Dubbo.

"It's extremely important to raise awareness about homelessness week and to get the public to recognise we do have homeless people in Dubbo," she said.

"Homelessness can mean different things to different people."

While National Homelessness Week has now come and gone, the situation in Dubbo is not improving any time soon.

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Ms Reynolds admitted her organisation was overloaded with work at the moment, especially with refuge.

"Women's refuge is absolutely full," she said.

"We need to be looking at other options here in Dubbo to house women because we have six rooms.

"We are also using the emergency room to house three single women.

"There is a desperate need for more accommodation here to house women."

Women's refuge is not the only problem, Ms Reynolds says the men's refuge is also full.

"With men as well, we have the men's refuge which can house 14 men and it is full," she said

"Every single property we have in transitional homes is full and we are screaming out for places to put homeless people."

Unfortunately, Orana Support Service is doing all it can to keep people in accommodation services but there is still people waiting.

Ms Reynolds knows more than 100 people are still waiting for their assistance but the organisation is doing all they can to help.

"We have 120 on our waiting list which we can't get to at the moment," she said.

"Our staff are at maximum of how many people they can have."

The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines homelessness as if a person does not have a suitable accommodation alternative if their current living arrangement has inadequate dwelling, their tenure is short and not extendable or does not have access for social relations.

According to the 2016 census, over 116,000 people in Australia are homeless with over half of those being male and the number is expected to increase once again after the findings of the latest census are released.

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