Pre-Budget Submission 2024-25 - JANUARY 2024

homelessness nor social housing funding programs deliver the resources needed to While the Federal Government has provided some establish new dedicated tenancies with the welcome commitments to grow the stock of social necessary linked support for children and young housing, the national shortfall of 640,000 social people. [...] The 2024 Budget will provide the resources for the new National Housing and Homelessness Agreement (NHHA); an important opportunity to embed social housing growth in the federal and state funding and cooperation architecture. [...] homelessness sector, academia, government, and people with lived experience, and across The summary report from consultations for the Australian and international homelessness national plan has identified change is needed to: sectors scale up use of Housing First models to end space for sector learning and capacity building homelessness across the breadth of current and emerging increase the focus. [...] To be most sustaining a national Housing First Community of effective, this voice needs to be closely informed by Practice to foster shared learning and to the homelessness sector and people with lived consciously evolve and develop the model for experience of homelessness. [...] Recommendation Scaling up will deliver Government: Invest $3 million over two years to resource expert policy advice on how to reduce Homelessness Australia to provide expert advice to homelessness, and improve pathways out of inform the Government’s policy change processes homelessness and to deliver the knowledge and training needed to scale up Housing First and provide sector capacity support.