HOMELESSNESS Week, an annual awareness-raising series of events, is held the first week of August highlighting the over 105,000 Australians who are homeless on any given night. On Monday, 2 August, Homelessness Australia, the country’s national peak body for homelessness, invited the…
Women and children can’t successfully flee domestic and family violence without access to housing they can afford, according to Homelessness Australia. Last year more 53,922 women and girls experiencing family violence came to homelessness services needing accommodation and support to access housing.…
Homelessness services across the country, including domestic and family violence crisis accommodation services, are set to have over $56 million cut from their budgets by June 2021 unless the Federal Government agrees to fully fund services. Homelessness Australia Chair Jenny Smith says…
31.3.14 | A national agreement aimed at dealing with homelessness will be extended by the Federal Government for another year with the Coalition to put forward $115 million.…