Homelessness Australia is not a provider of accommodation. If you are seeking emergency accommodation, click here for more information.
Homelessness Australia is not a provider of accommodation. If you are seeking emergency accommodation, click here for more information.
Homelessness Australia is the national peak body for homelessness in Australia. We provide systemic advocacy for the homelessness sector.
The experience of homelessness can be defined in many different ways and stretches across many cohorts of people, including people living in crisis accommodation, rough sleeping or those in temporary housing. Being homeless can mean more than not having a roof over your head and is not just one typical experience. Every Australian deserves to have a home. Learn more about what it means to be homeless and how to prevent it below.
February 6, 2023
As the gap between the cost of housing and incomes rapidly widens, the Australian Government must approve a $2 billion rapid-rehousing fund, expand the Housing Australia Future Fund to support annual construction of 25,000 social housing properties, and increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance 50 per cent. Homelessness Australia's recommendations for investment in the 2023-24 Budget have been released alongside analysis finding that while incomes have grown five per cent over two years, rents have completely outstripped them over the same period, increasing 28 per cent.
February 3, 2023
The high cost of housing in Australia, lack of affordable rentals and inadequacy of income support results in poverty for many households and drives homelessness. Fixing the housing crisis so that everyone can access a home they can afford is critical to addressing poverty and to ending homelessness in Australia. As this Submission outlines, this will require policy to address both income adequacy and the supply of affordable rental homes.
January 12, 2023
The latest Corelogic rent data shows a ‘new record high’ in national annual rent growth with values up 10.2% in the year to December. More Australians are diving deeper into housing stress and poverty with no end in sight.
Homelessness Australia (HA) welcomes the opportunity to provide a response and
recommendations for amendments to the Housing Legislative package. Our focus in responding to the legislative package is recommendations for amendments that will strengthen the impact of the legislative program on the nation’s housing affordability problem and homelessness crisis.
Homelessness Week 2023 will take place from Sunday August 6 to Saturday August 13. Homelessness Week aims to raise awareness of the impact of homelessness on Australia via national and local community events, including providing information on the importance of housing as a solution and educating communities on how they can make a difference.
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