After a poor review from the Human Rights Commission, the government has announced an overhaul of the emergency accommodation system.
The commission's report found that human rights were being breached, with some residents feeling safer sleeping on the streets than in emergency accommodation.
Now, motels and backpackers providing emergency accommodation will have to comply with a set of standards, and residents will be given more support to find long-term accommodation.
But the Human Rights Commission's recommendations say commercial accommodation should be phased out of the system altogether, among other changes.
Corin Dann spoke to Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt.
