Launch Housing is committed to ending homelessness. We are Victoria’s strongest advocates for affordable housing and believe that access to safe, secure and affordable housing is a fundamental human right.
The substantial body of evidence generated from our research into homelessness helps inform our advocacy for change to government policies, at local, state and national levels, to address Australia’s housing crisis.
Commitments from the Commonwealth Government to increase social and affordable housing supply through the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) program and 769 new social housing homes over the next five years with funding from the Commonwealth Government’s Social Housing Accelerator are widely welcomed. However significantly more social and affordable housing is required to end homelessness.
Response to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Homelessness. This submission provides advice to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs about homelessness in Australia and especially the adverse effect of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that it is impossible to socially distance when you have no-where to stay…
Update: The Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Mental Health draft report was released on 31 October 2019. Read our response here. On the 5 of April, 2019 Launch Housing made a submission to Productivity Commission inquiry into Mental Health which aims to explore the social and economic benefits of improving mental…
