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May 1, 2024
National Cabinet must today resolve to plug gaping holes in the housing and homelessness support available to women fleeing violence, amid widespread concerns a forthcoming national plan and new funding agreement will lack sufficient ambition and resources to provide safe homes.
April 19, 2024
Young renters who receive income support in Perth are doing it tougher now than they were a year ago, despite receiving income support increases in the 2023 Budget, with other young renters grappling with a rental affordability crisis that has barely improved.
March 15, 2024
A coalition of over 80 organisations, including Homelessness Australia and other peak bodies, homelessness services, housing providers, unions and others, has launched the HomeTime campaign seeking urgent action to ‘unlock Australia’s housing system for 16-24-year-olds who are homeless and unable to access housing. Join the campaign at https://www.hometime.org.au/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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