This report outlines progress in dealing with homelessness over the past year, including case studies from individuals that have been helped by the new reforms.

The Australian Government is using three strategies to guide our work to reduce homelessness:

• Turning off the Tap: preventing homelessness, wherever possible, through early intervention and prevention services.
• Improving and expanding services: improving service quality and building better connections between services so clients who are vulnerable to homelessness achieve sustainable housing and improved economic and social participation.
• Breaking the cycle: ensuring that people who become homeless move quickly through the crisis system to stable housing with the support they need so that homelessness does not recur.

Every time we house a person who is homeless or at risk of homelessness, help them to find a job or reconnect them to school, we are working to end homelessness.

This document sets out the achievements over the first year of the White Paper on homelessness.