Source: Victorian Homelessness Network (VHN)
National Homelessness Week is 3-9 August. The Barwon Homelessness Network is holding an exhibition of paper houses at Geelong library
and Biyal’a (Armstrong Creek). You can join the campaign to call for 60,000 houses to highlight the scale of Victoria’s homelessness crisis.
The VHN website has digital assets, social media tiles, posters, merchandise, posters for you to use. Don’t forget to add to the Statewide tally.
News:
ABC News- 28 July- Immediate financial cost for victim-survivors leaving domestic violence rises 71pc, research says
ABC News- 26 July- Refugee searching for rental home in Adelaide rejected more than 100 times
The Guardian- 21 July- Australia has had housing crises before: what can we learn from them?
ABC News- 21 July- Australia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says
ABC News – 18 July- Albert Park residents resist public housing relocation plan that 'doesn't make sense'
AFR – 21 July- Treasury warned Labor its housing targets were unachievable
Training/Resources/Reports:
CHP- Ending Homelessness for All: Submission to the Victorian State Disability Plan and State Autism Plan
GWYL- Where You Can Eat
Council to Homeless Persons – SHS training hub
AAEH- Health, housing and homelessness: How integration and investment saves lives
Webinars/Events:
CHP Homelessness Week Event: Embedding Lived Experience webinar - 4 August at 12.30pm
VCOSS Renters’ Rights Rundown: First Nations and Renting- 3 August at 10.00am
Homelessness Australia- Homelessness Week: In conversation with Minister Clare O'Neil 6 August at 9.45- 11.15
Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:
National First Nations Housing & Homelessness Forum 9 & 10 September in Naarm
AHURI National Housing Conference- 7& 8 October in Darwin
National Homelessness Conference 28-29 April, 2027 in Adelaide
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