06/08/2018
The theme of this year’s National Homelessness Week, 6-12 August is “Ending homelessness together”, and the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) agrees that ending […]
06/08/2018
Older Australians who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless are just one at-risk group who are set to be at the forefront of […]
06/08/2018
A Mission Australia survey of 15-19-year-olds has found one-in-six experienced homelessness last year, prompting calls for a national homeless strategy. Read the full story here
06/08/2018
More than 1300 applications have been made in the inner Gippsland region for social housing which represents a five per cent growth in nine months, […]
06/08/2018
Finland has replaced homeless shelters with permanent homes paired with intensive support. Juha Kaakinen, CEO of Y-Foundation, the agency which convinced the Finnish Government to […]
06/08/2018
One in 66 Tasmanians – or about 8000 people – benefited from a homelessness service in the year 2016-2017. These figures are expected to grow, […]
04/08/2018
Veteran St Kilda homelessness support worker Billi Clarke is not one to mince her words. “There is no doubt,” she says, that the Gatwick Hotel […]
03/08/2018
Financial difficulties and a lack of affordable housing are key drivers of Australia’s homelessness problem, according to an unprecedented report on rough sleepers. Rough sleepers […]
01/08/2018
More than 100 thousand Australians are waking to another day of homelessness. Mission Australia says many of them are young – aged just 15 to […]
12/07/2018
By Jess Scully, City of Sydney Councillor Any tenant will know the anxiety when you see a letter from your real estate agent. Every time […]