Australian Homelessness Monitor

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Australian Homelessness Monitor (AHM) is a series of national studies commissioned by Launch Housing to provide an overview analysis which highlights homelessness as a critical social problem.

As a follow-up to the AHM 2018 and AHM 2020 reports, AHM 2022 is once again led by City Futures in collaboration with Prof Cameron Parsell at the University of Queensland. Also contributing to the research this year are Dr Andrew Clarke (UNSW School of Social Sciences, and CFRC Fellow), and Chris Hartley (UNSW Centre for Social Impact).

Summary

Homelessness is solvable. This is what it will take:

  • In tackling rough sleeping in a concerted way, Housing First, where people are provided immediate access to long-term housing as a right, must be scaled-up and institutionalised into wider housing and support systems. Expanding the supply of long-term housing with linked supports will be essential in this.
  • A strategic and evidence-based approach to homelessness prevention must aim to establish more effective upstream interventions to stem the flow of people losing accommodation or, where that is impossible, to pre-empt homelessness by helping people into new homes.
  • An official commitment to the fundamental systemic reforms required to tackle the housing system failures that are a major causal factor for all forms of homelessness — in particular, through the revival of an ongoing national social housing investment program, recognising that social housing provision is the strongest bulwark in tackling the problem.

Western Australia (Housing Market Trends)

The past few years have seen many parts of Australia in the grip of a property price boom with problematic consequences for lower income groups. Some parts of the country — notably Western Australia — have seen more subdued housing market conditions since 2011. Even here, however, survey evidence shows growing numbers of lower income renters facing unaffordable rents that will increase homelessness risk.

Report

Read Australian Homelessness Monitor 2022 here.

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