Mental health plummets and rates of suicide steadily increase in the midst of the housing crisis, studies show. With soaring rents, more frequent evictions and displacements, greater numbers of people...
Blue Door CEO says programs that prioritize and strategically pour resources into preventing homelessness come at a fraction of the cost. As a preventive measure for our health, we are encouraged to visit...
Social services are attracting homeless people to Bundaberg. The thump-thump of cars can be heard from the caravans and makeshift tents lined up in the shade beneath Bundaberg's iconic bridge. There are...
The organisers of a housing and homelessness conference in the City of Moreton Bay next month hope participants will leave feeling informed, connected and energised. Chameleon Housing CEO Carmel Riethmuller...
Australia's crisis accommodation sector is in crisis, with more than 160,000 people experiencing or at risk of homelessness seeking shelter from Specialist Homelessness Services and many turned...
The collision between an ageing population and a housing crisis has left more older people in Australia enduring housing insecurity and homelessness. Our research , released today, explores how the scale of...
Homelessness Australia said between December and March demand for homelessness services rose 7.5% across Australia amid soaring rents and record low vacancy rates. In total, an extra 6,658 people sought...
While government’s role in creating affordable housing is to create policies, provide services, and build the crucial political will that encourages and promotes development of more housing, moving from...
Council to Homeless Persons chief executive Jenny Smith said Ms Barnes had been at the forefront of transforming dehumanising and dangerous night shelters into a model of safe and supported crisis...
Better access to housing and income support is needed to address an alarming increase in homelessness among people experiencing mental ill-health says Homelessness Australia as World Homelessness Day and World...