Victorians experiencing homelessness will have access to accommodation, health services, a tech hub, a gym and financial counselling with the opening of a $47 million support centre.
Budget season has come and gone and, with it, billions have been allocated to spend on housing and housing policies through the eight states and territories.
A colourful food van, manned by at-risk teenagers, rolling around southeast Queensland is shining a light on the raw reality of youth homelessness in Brisbane, Logan and the Redlands.
Subsidising community housing providers (CHPs) and their projects rather than providing tax concessions to for-profit developers has a better chance of kickstarting the build-to-rent sector in Australia, a Landcom study has found
Finland is the only EU country where homelessness is falling. Its secret? Giving people homes as soon as they need them – unconditionally.
Courtney Herron had been couch-surfing and sleeping rough. She was experiencing mental health issues and trying to deal with drug addiction. Her shocking death, an act of violence against a young woman, reminds us of the vulnerability of rough sleeping, and the disturbing and continuing reality of youth homelessness.
The state’s peak body for the housing and homelessness sector, Q Shelter, has called on the Commonwealth to reach an agreement with the Queensland Government and provide partnership funding for remote housing.
The Prime Minister has kept his promise and signed a National Partnership Agreement on Remote Housing in the Northern Territory that will ensure Aboriginal people have a formal role in the delivery of housing in their communities.
National Shelter calls on both major parties to extend their new bipartisanship on first home owner saver schemes to other more vital areas of housing policy.
With forty-one per cent of Gold Coast households are experiencing chronic rental stress, homelessness services are bracing for a busy winter. Here are the frightening statistics.