Launch Housing is co-chairing the Victorian Alliance to End Homelessness (VAEH) with VincentCare. We're calling for every local council in Victoria to adopt Advance to Zero, a person-centred framework for ending homelessness proven to work in communities overseas.
Our goal is to achieve zero homelessness in Victoria.
Victorian Zero is part of the VAEH, a networked community of practice united by a commitment to ending homelessness in Victoria by implementing the Advance to Zero framework.
We are not an incorporated body or a peak body, but a collective impact backbone initiative supported by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness. Our accountability is not to members or partners, but to our vision, to demonstrate that ending homelessness is possible.
Our vision is an end to homelessness for all people without a home, starting with rough sleeping, and for homelessness experiences in the future to be rare, brief, and one-off.
This starts with ending rough sleeping homelessness in Melbourne by 2030 and regional Victoria by 2035.
These outcomes show that targeted place-based efforts can deliver real impact even in a constrained housing environment. There is no question that this should become the standard way to end rough sleeping homelessness in Victoria.
George Hatvani, Head of Systems Change and Advocacy, Launch Housing
There are currently 11 local government areas across Victoria using the Advance to Zero framework to end homelessness, and they are all seeing results.
Several communities are sustaining functional zero for priority groups, including First Nations people in the City of Dandenong, Stonnington and Merri-bek, and people aged over 55 in Stonnington.
View progress to end rough sleeping on the Melbourne Zero website.
An independent economic evaluation by Urbis shows that statewide roll-out will save the Victorian Government $88 million dollars by 2035 in avoided costs across a range of sectors, from medical and mental health to justice and homelessness services.
300 Blankets
Australian Alliance to End Homelessness
Aboriginal Housing Victoria
Anglicare Victoria
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Avalon Centre
Better Health Network
Bolton Clarke
Catholic Care
Council to Homeless Persons
City of Darebin
City of Frankston
City of Greater Dandenong
City of Melbourne
City of Merri-bek
City of Port Phillip
City of Stonnington
City of Yarra
Centre for Multicultural Youth: CMY Home
Cohealth
Community Support Frankston
Cornerstone
Darebin Information, Volunteer & Resource Service
Ermha365
First Step
Fitzroy Legal Service
Hope Street Youth and Family Services
HousingFirst
Juno (formerly known as WISHIN)
Kids First Australia
Launch Housing
Lighthouse Foundation
Melbourne City Mission (MCM)
Mentis Assist
Merri Health (now Holstep Health)
Monash Health
Mornington Community Centre
Mornington Peninsula Shire
Merri Outreach Support Service (MOSS)
Neami National
Neighbourhood Justice Centre
Ngwala Willumbong Aboriginal Corporation (Ngwala)
North Richmond Community Health
Northwest Area Mental Health Service
Northern Community Legal Centre
Northern Hospital
Peninsula Health
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Port Phillip Community Group
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Sacred Heart Mission
SHS Networkers
Southeast Community Links (SECL)
Southern Peninsula Community Support
Southport Community Housing Group
Southside Justice
St Kilda Community Housing
St Mary's House of Welcome
St Vincent’s Hospital
Taskforce
The Alfred Hospital
The Living Room / Youth Projects
The Salvation Army
Unison Housing
Uniting Vic Tas
Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA)
Victoria Police
Vincentcare
Wayss
Wellways
Westernport Community Support
Windana
Wintringham
Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH)
Homes Victoria
Department of Justice and Community Safety (DoJ)
Ballarat Foundation
Blueshore Charitable Trust
Bowden Marstan Trust
Collier Trust
Creswick Woolen Mills (300 Blankets)
Erdi Foundation
Gandel Philanthropy
Jack Brockoff Foundation
JT Reid Trust
Perpetual Trustees
Ross Trust
William Angliss Charitable Fund
Individual donors
