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Urgent need to address a surge in family violence-fuelled homelessness

March 8, 2024

A new report reveals a growing crisis of women and children fleeing domestic and family violence into homelessness prompting calls for an urgent funding package to provide pathways to safe housing. 

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Homelessness funding guarantee will save critical jobs

February 28, 2024

Homelessness Australia has strongly endorsed the Federal Government’s decision to plug a $73 million funding shortfall for homelessness services. Funding for the Equal Remuneration Order (ERO) supplementation for homelessness services to cover the wages of the workforce was due to expire in July 2024 Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin congratulated the Government for listening to front-line homelessness workers.

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Peak housing bodies and unions urge end to funding uncertainty

February 23, 2024

Leading homelessness advocates and unions have united in a joint push for state and federal housing ministers to plug a $73 million funding black hole that threatens to worsen the homelessness crisis by jeopardising the future of 700 critical support jobs, as ministers meet today.

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Surging demand for homelessness support amid uncertain funding

January 23, 2024

The Productivity Commission annual Report on Government Services has revealed an alarming surge in demand for homelessness services as providers grapple with a looming $73 million funding black hole. The report finds a 23% jump in people exiting homelessness support into rough sleeping, with the number jumping from 4,658 in 2021-22 to 5,712 in 2023-34.

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Worst year yet for homelessness services as crisis deepens

December 30, 2023

Homelessness service providers are under immense strain from the toughest year on record, as a new survey reveals unrelenting demand due to the housing and cost of living crises. According to a survey of 252 workers across frontline and support functions 93 per cent said homelessness had worsened in the last year.

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Capacity crunch: AIHW stats reveal overwhelmed homelessness services

December 12, 2023

New data from the AIHW reveals that the number of people already homeless and sleeping rough when they sought help surged in the last year, as skyrocketing rents and record low vacancy rates pushed more people into homelessness.

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Mid year economic update must confront growing housing and homelessness crisis

December 7, 2023

The Federal Government must address the housing and homelessness crisis in its mid-year economic outlook as a new analysis from Homelessness Australia reveals a 6.2% increase in demand for already overwhelmed services from those impacted, amid declining funding.

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Homelessness can be fixed within a decade

October 27, 2023

Australia can end homelessness within a decade if it commits to building 50,000 social and affordable homes per year, expands Commonwealth Rent Assistance to reduce rental stress, and reorients government services towards the prevention rather than symptoms of homelessness through a new ‘duty to assist’, according to Homelessness Australia's Submission to the National Housing and Homelessness Plan.

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Passage of housing reforms a strong step forward

September 11, 2023

The nation’s peak housing and homelessness bodies have strongly welcomed the agreement between Labor, the Greens and Cross bench to pass laws that establish the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF).

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We need the National Housing and Homelessness Plan to set an aim to end homelessness 

August 7, 2023

As consultation on the National Housing and Homelessness Plan begins, Homelessness Australia calls on the Government to set a bold ambition to end homelessness.

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First nations women worst affected by the housing crisis

August 7, 2023

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait women and girls accessing specialist homelessness services has skyrocketed to a record high in the past five years, according to a new analysis that will be launched at Parliament House today to mark National Homelessness Week. In March 2023, the number of First Nations women and girls seeking help hit 16,535 per month - up 29 per cent from 12,808 in March 2018, according to the latest data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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Housing crisis is driving surging demand for homelessness services

August 4, 2023

A new analysis reveals surging demand for homelessness services as record low rental vacancies and soaring prices push thousands of Australian families to the brink. Between December and March, the number of people seeking homelessness assistance spiked 7.5 per cent, an extra 6,658 clients. Overstretched and overwhelmed: the strain on homelessness services was prepared to mark the start of Homelessness Week.

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