Housing and homelessness

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.

This snapshot present the key findings from Mission Australia’s Homelessness and Stable Housing Support Impact Report. It summarises the growing demand for homeliness services over the last three years, the impact of Mission Australia services, what works in practice and recommendations for urgent action to end homelessness. 

We recommended that the National Urban Policy: acknowledge and treat social housing as essential social infrastructure and create pathways for delivery at the scale required; adopt a National Framework for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning; and broaden the concept of place-based approaches to include work focused on tackling entrenched disadvantage.

Mission Australia stated our strong support to end 'no grounds' evictions, both during periodic tenancies and at the end of fixed-term agreements, in any amendments made to the NSW Residential Tenancies Act 2010.

Mission Australia recommended that: any regulatory changes must not penalise or prevent private landlords who support people who are homeless; a detailed economic analysis be undertaken and made public on the impact of a levy under various scenarios; and the revenue generated by the potential introduction of a levy go to funding homeless and housing support.