Guest Blog by Launch Housing Lead Researcher Violet Kolar Experiencing homelessness is overwhelming, scary and stressful, especially for children. In 2017-18, around 57,000 people, mostly women and children, sought support from Victoria’s specialist homelessness services due to domestic and family violence. These are serious and traumatic life events causing high levels of stress, with a […]
City of Port Phillip Street Count Launch Housing conducted the first Street Count within the City of Port Phillip with 95 volunteers on 7 February to count the number of people sleeping rough. The collated information will help agencies prioritise support to the individuals assessed as most vulnerable, and target allocation of existing resources. At […]
The State of Homelessness in Australia’s Cities: A Health and Social Cost Too High, was published by the Centre for Social Impact, University of Western Australia. The report addresses homelessness across Australia’s major cities by analysing Registry Week data of 8618 individuals experiencing homelessness over seven years from specialist homelessness services. It finds that those […]
The pervasiveness of homelessness, both in Australia and abroad, has led to concerted efforts to understand its causes and to develop effective policies and programs that provide short and long-term supportive housing solutions to rebuild lives. Existing research feeding into policy priorities has identified a number of sub-groups that need to be targeted, including Indigenous […]
The objective of this study was to determine whether a ‘housing first’ permanent supported accommodation was effective in improving housing stability, continuity of care and reducing mental health admissions for persons experiencing chronic homelessness with psychosis. Read full report
This report presents a summary of the findings from a review of the Community Housing Tenant Support Program conducted over November 2016, by the research team at Launch Housing. The findings will be used to report back to the key funder of the Program and to assist with informing the development of future funding applications. […]
When people think about housing, too often property prices and the weekend’s auction results come to mind. While this is one view of housing, it overlooks the thousands of Australians struggling to make ends meet in the private rental market, people living in social housing, and importantly, the 105,237 Australians who are homeless on any given night.[i] National leadership is […]
A national survey conducted for Launch Housing has found that Australians are concerned about homelessness and worried about meeting housing and living costs. They are also worried about their children’s ability to afford housing, a finding that reflects growing concern about rising property prices and declining rental affordability across many parts of Australia. Survey participants […]
This paper models potential revenue to the Victorian government through a ‘vacancy tax’ on residential properties in metropolitan Melbourne. It does this by: Briefly looking at vacancy taxes in the United Kingdom and a proposal from British Columbia. The UK example also examines work by Camden Council to bring vacant properties to market. Modelling four […]
This exploratory study is the first time that the point of view of primary schools and their day-to-day experiences of dealing with student homelessness have been investigated. The findings make an important contribution to the broader evidence base on the detrimental impact of homelessness on children’s education. Engagement and wellbeing are fundamental to learning1. Given […]
The Melbourne Street to Home project was funded for three years as part of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness. This is the final evaluation report and it updates the information presented in two previous reports (Johnson and Chamberlain 2012, 2013). The aims of the program were: 1 The ability to secure positive outcomes with […]
This exploratory study is the first time that the point of view of primary schools and their day-to-day experiences of dealing with student homelessness have been investigated. The findings make an important contribution to the broader evidence base on the detrimental impact of homelessness on children’s education. Engagement and wellbeing are fundamental to learning. Given that homelessness can […]
