Housing and homelessness

Mission Australia supports families to raise strong, healthy, and resilient children, enabling them to get the best possible start in life and equitable opportunities later in life. Our integrated service model aims to draw together services in a client centred approach, reflective of individual family circumstances and needs.

Mission Australia’s submission to the Foundations for Change – Homelessness in NSW discussion paper calls for a new Commonwealth-State housing and homelessness agreement and more social and affordable housing in NSW. It also calls for health and social service agencies to work more closely with specialist homelessness services to prevent and reduce homelessness.

Visual snapshots to support Mission Australia’s submission to the NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on Social, Public and Affordable Housing – calling for urgent action to address the affordable housing crisis.

Mission Australia is an experienced provider of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) services. We work across the whole DFV spectrum and provide early intervention and prevention, crisis accommodation and specialist services as well as sector advocacy. This is our submission to the NSW Domestic and Family Violence Blueprint For Reform.

In this paper, Mission Australia comment on the overall intent of the resource allocation, as well as the impacts of adopting the methodology described and to put forward suggestions for ways to improve the methodology to better reflect the needs of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Visual snapshots to support Mission Australia’s new analysis (March , 2014) showing pockets of extreme housing stress popping up across the country.

Mission Australia’s submission to the Federal House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs on homelessness in Australia highlighted a broad range of issues impacting different members of the community and made recommendations including significantly increasing the social and affordable housing stock across the country.

Mission Australia Housing submission to the National Commission of Audit.

Our submission to this inquiry by the Victorian Legal and Social Issues Committee emphasised on the growing need to significantly increase investment in social housing to meaningfully address housing and homelessness related issues in Victoria.

This Mission Australia sponsored edition of Parity magazine includes articles written by Mission Australia CEO Catherine Yeomans and Mission Australia Housing Executive Chris Bratchford. They explain why social and affordable housing is key to addressing homelessness and provide a roadmap to changing the trajectory of homelessness in Australia.

Mission Australia welcomes the NSW Government's commitment to preventing and responding to domestic and family violence. We support perpetrator programs to break the cycle of violence, alongside much needed services for women, children and other family members affected by domestic and family violence.

Mission Australia’s submission to the Tasmanian House of Assembly Select Committee on Housing Affordability focuses on the need for significant progress on reducing homelessness and investment in social and affordable housing to achieve this goal.

Mission Australia and Mission Australia Housing welcome the opportunity to provide comment on the Northern Territory Government’s Community Housing Strategy. This submission highlights the role Community Housing Providers can play in delivering quality social housing tenancy management which is responsive to the needs of residents and their communities.

We welcome the City of Sydney’s draft social sustainability policy and look forward to the development of the Action Plan. In particular we support the focus on improved well-being, equity of access to opportunity and reducing the gap between rich and poor so everyone thrives. We believe that Affordable Housing should be a priority for the City of Sydney and have focused our submission on housing and homelessness as well as strengthening communities.

The proposed Victorian Public Housing Renewal Program presents a good opportunity to significantly increase the number of well-located public housing units which can be maximised to significantly increase the housing stock. The submission encouraged the government to set clear targets to reduce homelessness, use the housing investment opportunity to build stronger communities, reform planning laws and a range of other practical measures. 

This submission highlighted the urgent requirement for the South Australian government to increase investment in social and affordable homes through a long-term and sustainable strategy as well as the need for a diverse range of early intervention and prevention services across the state.

This submission focused on the NSW government’s response to COVID-19 and the implementation of the Homelessness Strategy with a focus on prevention and early intervention measures, effective supports and responses and the need for an integrated, person centred support system.

Mission Australia’s submission focused on the thematic directions and focused on the need to increase social and affordable housing, increasing housing options across homelessness continuum, trauma informed service delivery and catering for the diverse needs of different groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, older women, young people and families and the like.

This report present the evidence Mission Australia has been gathering over the last three years, including rich data from our services, experiences of our practitioners and the voices of people with a lived experience of homelessness. It shows homelessness and stable housing support services have a critical role in ending homelessness and ensuring people in need can thrive, reinforces what is working well in practice and illustrates where urgent action is needed to end homelessness.

We call for a $500m Prevention Transformation Fund and 1 million social and affordable homes over the next 20 years to transform the homelessness service system to end homelessness. The National Plan must: adopt a systems approach to housing and homelessness; deliver affordable permanent housing for all; boost homelessness prevention measures; maintain homelessness crisis measures; and embed accountability, data collection and performance reporting.