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Election 2025: Fixing Australia’s homelessness emergency

February 21, 2025

Homelessness Australia's election platform outlines 12 investments and reforms needed to drive down homelessness, and strengthen the homelessness response so people get the help they need to avoid or escape from homelessness.

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Redbridge Polling Election 2025: Voter appetite for on homelessness

February 21, 2025

Research by Redbridge across 24 electorates reveals strong voter support for action on homelessness.

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Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024

December 9, 2024

The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 is the fourth in a series of national studies led by City Futures Research Centre to provide an overview analysis which highlights homelessness as a critical social problem, drawing links to labour market and housing market trends, and to social security and developments in affordable housing and homelessness policy. AHM 2024 was developed in partnership with Homelessness Australia.

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Call Unanswered: Unmet demand for specialist homelessness services

November 26, 2024

A landmark study by Impact Economics finds the number of people at risk of homelessness has surged 63 per cent to three million, overwhelming the capacity of homelessness services who have had to close their doors to people desperately seeking help.

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Homes for all: Call for urgent expansion of housing with support for people with psychosocial disability and complex needs at risk of homelessness

October 11, 2024

This paper outlines ways forward to address the housing and support needs of people with psychosocial disability or other complex needs experiencing repeat or persistent homelessness. It was published on 10 October, which is World Mental Health and World Homelessness Day.

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Child Homelessness Snapshot 2024

August 5, 2024

Child Homelessness Snapshot 2024 reveals new statistics about homelessness for Australian children and the impact of inadequate resources to respond to homeless children.

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Homelessness sector letter on income support

May 13, 2024

Letter to the Prime Minister urging an increase in income support payments to prevent homelessness.

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Pre-Budget Submission 2024

April 19, 2024

Our Budget Submission calls for increased investment in homelessness services to meet growing demand, for investment in income support and social housing, a fund for homelessness prevention, and for resourcing for a national peak body for homelessness.

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Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Cost of Living

April 2, 2024

This joint submission to the Select Committee on Cost of Living from Homelessness Australia, the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA), and National Shelter highlights the impact of the housing crisis on households and calls for increased investment in social housing and increased income support.

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Homelessness and domestic and family violence: State of Response Report

March 8, 2024

The Homelessness and domestic and family violence: State of Response Report for International Women’s Day analyses Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data to find that over the last decade the number of women and children who have experienced domestic and family violence and who are sleeping rough or in a car at the end of homelessness support and the number of women and children couch surfing at the end of support has more than doubled. The report calls for an urgent funding package to provide pathways to safe housing.

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