Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 5 February 2026

News:

ABC News- 5 Feb- Capital gains tax reform among options as Labor weighs housing pitch

ABC News- 1 Feb- Canberra public housing tenants' human rights were breached by plans to move them

The Guardian- 31 Jan- ‘I can’t move a fridge’: elderly residents forced out after Melbourne public housing towers earmarked for demolition

Inside Story- 28 Jan- Anywhere but Melbourne?

ACOSS- Boost social housing & curb property investor tax breaks

Briefing note – January 2026

ABC News- 29 Jan- Public housing towers for the elderly to go in next stage of high-rise redevelopment plan

ABC News- 29 Jan- Concerns domestic tenants required to share excessive personal data to secure leases

The Guardian- 25 Jan- The forensic psychiatrist working with Victoria’s young offenders: ‘when you know their origins, you wonder how they’ve survived at all’

 

Training/Resources/Reports:

Council to Homeless Persons – SHS training hub

Productivity Report - Report on Government Services 2026 -Housing and homelessness (part G)

AHURI- How to grow Australia’s Social Housing Stock

Exploring Barwon - Housing Beyond Crisis: Public and Community Housing

Webinars/Events:

Exploring Barwon: Empowering Frontline Workers, Practical Support for Clients in Financial Hardship- 11 Feb 1.30-2.15pm

CHIA Vic- Key Worker Housing Framework Launch- Feb 10 11-12pm

 

Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:

Victorian Homelessness Conference- recordings available for those that attended here

AHURI National Housing Conference- 7&8 October in Darwin

City of Greater Geelong- Community events grants are open

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