Copy of National Housing and Homelessness Plan Submission

population Joint peaks housing and homelessness An endless flow of Australian reports and inquiries consultation into homelessness document the costs and harms Preventing homelessness for children and young people suffered by individuals, families, local communities Ending homelessness for people experiencing and taxpayers and identify ways to prevent and significant mental illness address homeles. [...] Translation of this vision and commitment into reality requires effective coordination with clear Despite the deep commitment of the homelessness accountabilities across and between different sectors and some excellent small scale initiatives levels of government, the homelessness sector and pockets of great work, the high and growing and the broader community. [...] 4 Dedicated approaches are There are important local needed to end homelessness and international lessons to for different groups draw from Together with many children and youth The National Housing and Homelessness Plan homelessness services and peak bodies, Homelessness Australia believes that a dedicated ought to be informed by and build upon strong Action Plan to end homelessness for local and. [...] National homelessness prevention legislation Government and the homelessness sector needs to be a feature of the new Plan to: describe it as being an enabler for people to understand and exercise their rights and also recognise the universal right to housing increasing the political appetite for action on provide a legal definition of homelessness and homelessness. [...] [51] acknowledge the structural, systemic and individual drivers of homelessness The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 establish its relationship and alignment with the The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 requires local Australian Government’s policy for addressing authorities to take reasonable steps to prevent homelessness as set out in the National Housing and relieve homelessness through a ‘duty to and Homele.