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Homelessness Australia is not a provider of accommodation. If you are seeking emergency accommodation, click here for more information.
Statement
March 7, 2024
The Homelessness Australia (HA) Board advises our members and supporters that HA is not involved in delivering the national homelessness conference in partnership with AHURI following AHURI’s withdrawal from a partnership model for this event.
Inquiry
February 26, 2024
Homelessness Australia has partnered with the UNSW City Futures Research Centre and University of Queensland to support the development of the Australian Homelessness Monitor. The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 is the fourth in a series of national studies that aim to to highlight the changing nature and scale of homelessness, drawing links to labor market and housing market trends, and to developments in homelessness policy.
Letter
February 23, 2024
Homelessness, housing, and welfare peak bodies, and the Australian Services Union joined together to call for federal and state housing and homelessness ministers to deliver the homelessness funding needed to prevent people being turned away from homelessness services without the help they need
Submission
December 7, 2023
Relentless rent increases and record low vacancy rates are driving more Australians into homelessness and services are unable to keep up with demand. The latest data on use of homelessness services reveals a surge in demand for homelessness help in 2023. Meanwhile funding for homelessness services is falling behind the cost of inflation, and homelessness services face a funding cliff beyond June 2024. Housing crisis: homelessness emergency calls for an emergency funding boost for homelessness services in the MYEFO and for an increase in income support payments to prevent more people becoming homeless.
Submission
October 27, 2023
Homelessness Australia's Submission calls for transformational change to end homelessness within ten years and halve it within five by reorienting Government policy towards preventing homelessness. The changes proposed include investment to address unmet housing need and income adequacy, to strengthen mainstream services to provide support for children and families to thrive, legislative protections against homelessness, including a ‘duty to assist’ people at risk of homelessness, and a commitment to no exits to homelessness from government services. Homelessness Australia also calls for investment in homelessness services to provide the support people need to avoid or escape from homelessness and to sustain housing.
Submission
August 30, 2023
Homelessness Australia's submission outlines how the growing rental crisis is driving more people into homelessness. We call for greater investment in social and affordable housing to deliver homes that people on low and modest incomes can afford, increased income support, and for rent stabilisation measures to limit excessive rent rises.
Submission
August 11, 2023
Homelessness Australia has developed a key messages and submission guide to inform submissions to the National Housing and Homelessness Plan. This Plan will be developed in 2023 and is expected to be released in 2024. It represents an enormously important opportunity to achieve the changes needed to end homelessness. But it could also be a disappointment. To encourage the Government to develop a plan that includes the changes needed to end homelessness; we need you to contribute to the process and make powerful arguments for change.
Report
August 4, 2023
Homelessness Australia's Overstretched and overwhelmed report reveals the enormous strain on homelessness services as a result of the housing crisis. It reveals that the number of people seeking homelessness assistance spiked 7.5 per cent, an extra 6,658 clients between December 2022 and March 2023. The report also cross-references Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data against service costs as outlined in the Productivity Commission Report on Government Services to reveal that an additional $450 million in homelessness support is needed to respond to new people needing homelessness assistance and people currently being turned away.
Report
June 23, 2023
In 2023, the Federal Government will begin developing their national housing and homelessness plan. This paper details the ambition and scope needed in the Plan to effectively end homelessness, including the reforms needed in other policy areas of Government to prevent homelessness occurring, and the homelessness services needed to quickly end homelessness when it occurs, and prevent people falling back into homelessness.
Submission
February 6, 2023
Homelessness Australia's Pre-Budget Submission calls for a $2 billion rapid-rehousing fund to immediately deliver 4,000-5,000 social housing properties, investment in a pipeline of social and Aboriginal community-controlled housing, and housing commitments for women and children fleeing violence, an increase in Commonwealth Rent Assistance and working age social security payments, and a national program of Housing First supports. Homelessness Australia also calls on the Government to establish an expert homelessness advisory group including people with lived experience of homelessness, advocates and experts to shape the new National Housing and Homelessness Plan, along with a similar body for child and youth homelessness.
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