Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 5 December 2024

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?

News:

The Standard – 27 Nov- State government launches parliamentary inquiry into regional housing crisis

The Guardian – 24 Nov- Perverse incentives leave young Australians locked out of community housing, study finds

The Guardian- 26 Nov– ‘Deaths of needless poverty and despair’: homelessness report reveals surge in fatalities in Australia

Premier of Victoria- 25 Nov– Improving Standards In Rentals And Rooming Houses

Premier of Victoria- 27 Nov- Crackdown on Excessive Rent Increases And Dodgy Rentals

The Guardian- 25 Nov- Perverse incentives leave young Australians locked out of community housing, study finds

ABC News- 25 Nov- Help to Buy and Build to Rent housing supports to be put to vote without a deal, after Greens compromise rejected

ABC News- 4 Dec- Affordable housing project opens in Bellingen for local women over 55

The Conversation- 28 Nov- A new report links being homeless in Australia to dying 40 years early

Training/Resources/Reports:

AHURI – Lived experience participation and influence in homelessness and housing policy, service design and practice

SGS Economics & Planning – Rental Affordability Index: research report

Tenants Victoria- New video guide for renters going to VCAT

AHURI- 21 Nov- With the right incentives, ‘Mum and Dad’ landlords could help deliver affordable housing

DFFH Annual Report 2023-2024 report (Pg 121) shows increase in social housing stock

Where You Can Eat – Feed Geelong 

Disability Advocacy Resource Unit website

Council to Homeless Persons – SHS Learning Hub

AAEH- Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

No Interest Loans– Good Shepard

Webinars/Events:

Homelessness Australia- Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024- unpacking the findings 12 Dec 2-3pm

Safe + Equal – 16 Days of Activism against Gender- Based Violence Campaign

 

Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:

Walter & Eliza Hall Trust – grant programs

The Jack Brockhoff Foundation – Bold Futures – Project Grants open in December 

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

Previous news updates…

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 19 December 2024

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 19 December 2024

SOURCE: AIHW 2024 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...

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 21 November 2024

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 21 November 2024

SOURCE: Impact Economics and Policy and Homelessness Australia 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...

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 7 November 2024

Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 7 November 2024

SOURCE: Homes Vic Regional Housing Fund 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...

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