Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 15 July 2024

SOURCE: Victorian Homelessness Network webpage

 

News:

The Saturday Paper – to 5 July- Exclusive: Labor is letting housing charities fail

Victorian Government Media release- 12 July- More Frontline Workers To Address Family Violence

Victorian Government Media release- 11 July- New Program to Provide Homes First For Victorians

ABC News- 5 July- Heated property market sends Victoria’s public housing market rents soaring

ABC News- 4 July- Landlords warn NSW government’s proposed no-grounds eviction ban will backfire on tenants

ABC News- 3 July- ‘Build more houses’ sure sounds great as a solution to the housing crisis, but a few key factors scream ‘buyer beware’

News Angle- Winter edition- Homelessness Week 5-11 August

The Guardian- 24 June- Should Australia recognize housing as a human right? Two crossbenchers are taking up the cause

ABC News- 29 June- Domestic violence services plead for more help to save rural women from being killed, abused

ABC News- 30 June- Homelessness in bitter winter means mouldy, damp and wet conditions for rough sleepers

ABC News- 30 June- Do you love renting? Does it make you feel patriotic?  

ABC News- 1 July – Seventeen more women killed by men than this same time last year, government launches intimate partner homicide counter

Training/Resources/Reports:

Disability Advocacy Resource Unit website

Council to Homeless Persons – SHS Learning Hub

AAEH- Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

 

Webinars/Events:

Homelessness Australia- How UK welfare reforms fuelled a homelessness crisis 16 July 4-5pm

Homelessness Australia- Towards safe supported housing in a changing NDIS 31 July 11.00-12.30

Homelessness Australia- Ending homelessness for families and children 5 August 12.15-2.00pm

Homelessness Australia- Sector Briefing: Legislating a National Housing and Homelessness Plan 22 July 12-1pm

Tenants Victoria Renters Rights Rundown recording of Minimum rental standards, thermal comfort and energy efficiency

Exploring Barwon: Respectful Relationships 30 July 10.00-10.45

Centre for culture, ethnicity & health– Understanding unconscious bias: Creating a safe space for support – 18th July 12- 12.30

AHURI- The future of rental affordability – 18 July at 1.00pm

Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:

Engage Victoria – Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses closes 1 July 

Australian Zero Homelessness Summit– 16th October Fremantle WA

No to Violence National Conference 2-5 September Melbourne

AHURI- Australian Homelessness Conference -13 and 14 August at the Adelaide Convention Centre and free lived experience tickets/accommodation and flights application

Barwon South West Homelessness Network- Increase public and community housing sign the petition

Engage Victoria- Developing a Plan for Victoria– open until 30 August. Housing is one of the four pillars- this is your chance show support for mandatory inclusionary zoning and 30% social housing on all government land.

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