This report provides an overview of the types, extent and benefits of government assistance available to homeowners and renters as well as to people experiencing homelessness, and to specific population groups.Housing assistance helps people meet their basic human need for shelter and security and can also improve living standards, health and well being and participation...

This report from Wesley Mission examined homelessness in Australia.

Although Supported Accommodation Assistance Program agencies accommodate large numbers of people every day, they cannot always meet all the requests for SAAP accommodation. This report provices information about the level of unmet demand for SAAP accommodation, including how the estimates are calculated.

This article provides a snapshot of some of the many legal issues which confront people who have experienced primary homelessness, including a discussion of some of the driving factors underpinning this trend such as the criminalisation of homelessness, the absence of socio-economic considerations in the formulation of many laws, and discrimination on the grounds of...

Melbourne Citymission workers have expressed concern that they do not currently have the time or resources to provide the amount of intensive support required for families experiencing housing crisis.