Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 30 July 2025

Source: Victorian Homelessness Network – Houses at Parliament

Join Our Petition!

Please join our petition to the City of Greater Geelong.

There are over 7,000 households on priority applications on the Victorian Housing Register (VHR) in the Barwon broadbands. This petition is to support the urgency of building public and community housing, as housing ends homelessness. The Barwon Homelessness Network is seeking your support. Will you sign this petition?

National Homelessness Week (4-10 August)
The Barwon and South West Homelessness Network (BSWHN) is part of the Houses at Parliament Homelessness Week campaign. Homelessness week starts next week and we are over halfway there.
 
This is a Victoria-wide campaign so join with us and our colleagues around Victorian in the call for more public and community housing to end homelessness and a national plan to end homelessness.
 
BSWHN Houses at Parliament- let me know what you have planned?
There are events planned across our region that are listed on the Victorian Homelessness Network.
 
News:
The Guardian- 27 June- ‘I come to save the system’: why Melbourne tower residents fear for the future of public housing
SBS News- 23 July- 'They have nowhere to go': The Australians at the centre of a housing 'emergency'
 
Training/Resources/Reports:
Yoorrook Justice Commission – Housing report
CHP & Safe+ Equal- Bridging the Gap between homelessness and family violence
 
Webinars/Events:
NATSIHA, Homelessness Australia & Homelessness NSW
Free registration for those with lived experience (not employed in the role) to the AHURI Housing Conference – registrations close 8 August
Emma House – Community Legal Education Monthly events on Fridays – August session on Family Violence and Evidence at Warrnambool library.
Exploring Barwon- 30 July at 1pm- Identity matters: Helping clients facing challenges in obtaining, accessing and providing identity documents
 
Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:
Social Housing Volunteer Awards – nominations close 26 September
Victorian Homelessness Conference- Ballarat 27 &28 November (early bird registrations open in August)
AHURI National Housing Conference – Perth 14-16 October
Barwon South West Homelessness Network- Increase public and community housing sign the petition

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