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March 20, 2025
Homelessness Australia welcomes the Greens’ plan to end homelessness by investing in 50,000 ongoing Housing First tenancies, and increased funding for social housing and homelessness services.
March 6, 2025
Homelessness Australia has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of $6.2 million in peak body funding over 3 years that will enable critical advocacy, research and support for the homelessness sector to continue.
March 6, 2025
Homelessness Australia, and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), have strongly endorsed the Australian Government's launch of $1 billion to address critical gaps in crisis housing for young people experiencing homelessness, and women and children fleeing family violence, through the National Housing Infrastructure Facility Crisis and Transitional Housing (NHIF CT) program.
February 27, 2025
Homelessness Australia is sounding a warning that the City of Moreton Bay Council’s plans to criminalise sleeping rough will only intensify harm to people already suffering the consequences of the national housing crisis, and the real solution is to invest in social housing and homelessness support.
February 21, 2025
More than 120,000 Australians are not getting the support they need when they encounter homelessness, and polling shows homelessness is emerging as a key election issue, with financially stressed voters telling pollsters the problem is getting worse, and they want a remedy. The Homelessness Australia election platform calls for the unmet need to be addressed with $671 million for frontline services.
February 2, 2025
Homelessness Australia, together with National Shelter and the Community Housing Industry Association have strongly endorsed the Albanese Government's announcement of $100 million in funding to build hundreds of new crisis and transitional homes across Australia.
January 31, 2025
The latest Productivity Commission Report on Government Services has revealed a 25% surge in persistent homelessness over the past five years, highlighting an urgent need for increased investment in long-term support services.
January 29, 2025
Homelessness Australia welcomes the Federal Government’s renewed focus on addressing homelessness among Australians with disabilities, as outlined in the revised national Disability Strategy. “The inclusion of a dedicated homelessness priority area in the revised national disability plan, and introduction of the Targeted Action Plan for 2025-2027 on Inclusive Homes and Communities is an important step to address a major problem,” said Homelessness Australia CEO Kate Colvin.
December 18, 2024
Homelessness Australia has warned more ambition is needed to tackle the housing crisis after the federal government’s mid-year budget fell short in critical areas. “We need the Government to provide the housing and support that millions of Australians desperately need. This should include major new investments in social housing to build on the Housing Australia Future Fund and other commitments, along with a greater investment in homelessness services so no one is turned away, and more income support so people can pay their rent."
December 11, 2024
The latest AIHW annual homelessness data, released today, revealing a deepening emergency. The number of people already sleeping rough when first accessing a service increased 13% in the past year, and one-third of people who needed emergency accommodation missed out. Homelessness Australia is calling on the federal and state governments to deliver an emergency homelessness investment.
December 9, 2024
Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 has revealed a 22% increase in people experiencing rough sleeping in the three years to 2023-24, nationwide. The deepening housing crisis is the major driver of worsening homelessness, with the number of people citing housing affordability stress as the main reason they need homelessness services having increased by 36% in the three years to 2023-24.
November 27, 2024
New data reveals a devastating 63 per cent surge in preventable deaths among Australians experiencing homelessness, with people dying decades earlier than the general population amid critical shortages in housing and support services. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare today released an analysis of a decade of data, showing 12,500 people who had accessed homelessness services died over the ten-year period to 2022, a death rate 1.8 times the general population, with the annual death toll rising from 914 in 2012-13 to 1,489 in 2021-22 – a 63% increase.
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