[5] 1 Federal funding housing and In March 2023, after months of campaigning to encourage the Federal Government to continue homelessness funding provided since the 2007 Fair Work Commission Equal Remuneration Order decision to Federal funding for homelessness services is meet the costs of increased wages, the delivered through the National Housing and Government committed to a ‘one off’ payment H. [...] Homelessness components of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 Homelessness component $123.6 M $127.8 M $132 M ERO supplement homelessness $63.4 M $67.5 M - Total homelessness $187.0 M $195.3 M $132 M Funding needed to keep pace with inflation $198.2 M $205 M Shortfall relative to 2022-23 $2.9 M $73 M In June 2024 the current National Housing and Homelessness Ag. [...] 2 Urgent solutions to be addressed in the MYEFO We need a strong Provide more support to respond to homelessness sector to deliver surging homelessness effective responses Responding to surging homelessness requires additional resources. [...] Addressing the issues driving increased homelessness requires broad reforms, including For homelessness services to be able to respond to significant new investment in social housing, and everyone needing assistance, and to provide the increased support to meet people’s needs in level of support people need to exit homelessness, relation to domestic and family violence, child and they need signifi. [...] An additional $450 million would enable However, the scale and urgency of the homelessness services to provide support to people homelessness crisis requires action in the MYEFO to being turned away from homelessness services and address the present emergency.
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