Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 2 March 2023

SOURCE: The Conversation- 27^th February- Tiny houses and alternative homes are gaining councils’ approval as they wrestle with the housing crisis

News:

ABC News- 2^nd March- Daily struggle for homeless who have set up tents passed by pedestrians every morning at Rivulet Park

ABC News- 24^th February- Housing crisis has become ‘truly national’, councils and housing groups say, as they call for $400m funding injection

ABC News-21^st February- Port Fairy businesses sell up, reduce trading hours due to hospitality staff shortages

ABC News- 20^th February- Share houses make comeback as rental crisis continues and people lease out spare rooms

ABC News- 20^th February- Fears for ‘invisible’ young people forced home by COVID-19 pandemic and stuck there due to cost of living

ABC News- 15^th February- Million households ‘vulnerable’ to rising interest rates, and their cuts could cause recession

The Guardian- 20^th February- Advocates criticize Victoria’s decision to allocate affordable housing by ballot rather than need

The Guardian- 12^th February- ‘Treating us like chess pieces’: Big Housing Build turns into big wait for Leawarra residents

ABC News- 21^st February- Homelessness charity running low on tents and swags as cost of living hits hard in regional South Australia

CHIA Vic News- 1^st March- Surf Coast Shire opens Expressions of Interest process

Training/Resources/Reports:

Council to Homeless Persons- State Budget Submission Investing in a strategy to end homelessness in Victoria- February 2023  

Exploring Barwon: Victorian Multicultural Commission, Settlement of refugees and people seeking asylum in Barwon 21^st March 2.00 (45min) online

Youth Homelessness Matters Day 19^th April – Y Foundation resources

Victorian LGBTIQ+ Leadership Program rural and regional applications only

MARAM Collaborative Practice Training- SAFV Centre

The Constellation Project Lived experience voices

MH Vic- Training calendar Semester One

Council to Homeless Persons – SHS Learning Hub

AAEH- Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

Transgender Victoria – training

Webinars/Events:

For Purpose Working with lived experience: exploring practices, challenges and mindsets March intensive- beginning 7^th March $450

Everybody’s Home Organisational Campaign update -9^th March 1.30-2.15pm

Duluth Model Masterclass in Geelong on 22^nd & 23^rd March $300

Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) conference was held recently on the Gold Coast all presentations are available here

ABC iview 60minute screening on 16^th January of Under Cover

Conferences/Grants/Submissions:

National Child and Youth Homelessness Conference on the 5^th and 6^th June

Homelessness Australia – January 2023- Pre-budget submission 2023-24

Parity call for contributions – April 2023 “Towards a new child and youth housing and homelessness plan”

Mercy Foundation social justice small grants open

Geelong Community Foundation grants open

Anthony Costa Foundation grants open

CHIA Vic Conference early bird registrations are open for the 26^th and 27^th April in Melbourne

Dysons community grants open 1^st March

AHURI National Homelessness Conference 2022 sessions available on YouTube