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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).
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.
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.
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.
June 27, 2023
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up one-fifth of the nation’s homeless population on Census night despite accounting for only 3.8 per cent of the overall population, prompting calls for urgent investment to close the gap. Homelessness Australia and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association are urging the Commonwealth to begin developing a pipeline of investment in Aboriginal community controlled housing at least at the level of the previous National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing.
June 19, 2023
Homelessness Australia together with the Community Housing Industry Association, National Shelter, Everybody's Home, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association, the Property Council of Australia, and Industry Super Australia have thanked the parliamentarians who have strengthened the housing legislative package and called for it to be passed in this sitting of Parliament.
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