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Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 6 September 2024
SOURCE: APO- Voices of the Crisis
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:
ABC News- 4 September- Housing crisis ‘profoundly harmful’ to Australians, council boss Susan Lloyd- Hurwitz tells National Press Club- as it happened
ABC News- 4 September- Labor’s housing investor tax break hits Senate snag after developers, affordability advocates air concerns
Inside Story- 4 September- Remaking citizenship
Inside Story- 3 September- Increasing JobSeeker is good economics
ABC News- 28 August– Victoria needs more social housing. But some fear good plans can unravel when stigma takes hold
ABC News- 27 August- Victorian government announces latest changes to short stay levy bill
ABC News- 23 August- What you actually need to do before a routine rental inspection
The Herald Sun- 16 August- Homelessness peak bodies accuse state gov of selling public land that should be used for building social housing
ABC News- 18 August- Video: Government announces new social housing for older women
The Conversation- 6 August- Can Australia end homelessness? Yes, we know how, but we must find the will to do it
Training/Resources/Reports:
VAGO –Withdrawal from Commonwealth Games – March, 2024
Institute for Government- From the ground up How the government can build more homes– August, 2024
National Shelter- The Rental Report – A performance report on the progress of A Better Deal for Renters– August, 2024
APO- Wicked solutions: a long term approach to housing affordability
APO- Unlocking the prevention potential: accelerating action to end domestic, family and sexual violence
Life Course Centre- Listening to lived experience: what needs to be done to end homelessness in Australia?
APO- December 2023-Alleged politicisation of the public sector
AHURI- From Homelessness to a Home H2H Outcomes Evaluation
Council to Homeless Persons- A new workforce planning platform to support Specialist Homelessness Services and the community and social services sector
MCM- Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot
Homelessness Australia- 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot
HYDDI workers training calendar for those working with young people
Disability Advocacy Resource Unit website
Council to Homeless Persons – SHS Learning Hub
AAEH- Australian Alliance to End Homelessness
Webinars/Events:
PHN Geelong Homelessness Access Program Launch – 25 September 10.00-11.30
Everybody’s Home– Online meeting: What we heard from the People’s Commission on Housing + What happens next- 11 September 7.30-8.30pm
Percapita- Housing: The Great Australian Right– 12 September 12.30 in person or on-line
CHP- Lived Experience Hotline: Ask Me Anything: AMA– 7 August You Tube
Exploring Barwon- Barwon Child and Family Services Alliance 18 September 10.00-10.45
Conferences/Grants/Submissions/Petitions:
Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 complete the survey
Australian Zero Homelessness Summit– 16 October Fremantle WA
Barwon South West Homelessness Network- Increase public and community housing sign the petition
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation – Homelessness and Affordable Housing grant open
Previous Barwon Homelessness Network Updates
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...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 29 May 2024
Source: The Guardian Labs- 21 May- Breaking the cycle: why tackling youth homelessness needs an integrated approach News: The Saturday Paper- 18 May- The housing crisis won’t be solved like this ABC News- 24 May- Bass Coast rents out of reach for low and middle income earners, even the most...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 16 May 2024
Source: The Guardian- 9th May-‘ l’ve got nowhere else to go’: as winter draws in, dozens rely on insecure housing in Ballarat News: ABC News- 15 May- Australia’s housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget ABC News- 15 May- Campers in central Victoria face eviction from own land by Mount...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 01 May 2024
SOURCE: APO- Anglicare Australia rental affordability snapshot: national report 2024 News: The Guardian- 30 April- Victorian Greens shape up for housing fight over Labor’s proposed Airbnb levy ABC News- 29 April- Renters are becoming more aware of rights, but it can mean long waits at tribunal-...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 15 Apr 2024
SOURCE: Home Time Join the national campaign News: ABC News- 13 April- Adelaide’s CBD has lots of empty offices. Could adaptive reuse help ease a tight rental market? The Conversation- 13 April- If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well sort of ABC News-...
Barwon Homelessness Network Update – 22 Mar 2024
SOURCE: Geelong Times – 21 March - Real Deal celebrates a successful forum News: ABC News- 20 March- Potential Airbnb ban, ‘no deposit’ home loans and rent subsidies: Radical policies show how housing might swing elections Melbourne Zero- 7 February- How Housing is widening the Gap Between Rich...