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Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 5 December 2024
SOURCE: Home Time campaign
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:
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 Barwon Homelessness Network Updates
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 support the urgency of building...
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 building public and community...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 24 October 2024
SOURCE: ABC News- 17 October- The stereotype that single mothers are ‘leaning on the system’ is far from the truth. So why does it still exist? 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)...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 18 September 2024
SOURCE: First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria – Treaty for Victoria 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...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 6 September 2024
SOURCE: APO- Voices of the Crisis 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...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 22 August 2024
SOURCE: Colac members of the Barwon Homelessness Network at the Colac Library event to raise awareness of homelessness in the Colac Otway Shire during National Homelessness week. Please join our petition to the City of Greater Geelong. There are over 7,000 households on priority applications on...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 8 August 2024
SOURCE: The Guardian news of the day National Homelessness Week 8th to 15th August The Houses at Parliament event was held last Wednesday. Hundreds of homelessness workers gathered to raise awareness of the 60,000 public and community houses urgently needed now across Victoria. You can watch the...
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...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 27 June 2024
Victorian Homelessness Network join the campaign, spread the word and start folding houses. All the information you need can be found here News: The Conversation- 21 June- Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targets Daily Mail- 19 June- Victoria’s...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 13 June 2024
Source: Victorian Homelessness Network join the campaign, spread the word and start folding houses. All the information you need can be found here News: Victorian Government Media Release- 9 June- Reducing Homelessness Through Early Intervention ABC News- 6 June- Building approvals in Australia...