Since the Burdekin Report highlighted the links between homelessness and people with mental health problems, there has been a growing body of research which has highlighted the risk factors associated with mental health problems in vulnerable housing situations. Buthere has been little documentation of the repetitive and ongoing cycle of homeless people moving through all...

The Partnership Against Homelessness was a network of NSW Government agencies which aims to improve services for homeless men and women. The Partnership oversaw a rolling program of reforms to existing services and introduced new projects to increase access to crisis, temporary and long-term accommodation.

This document is a blueprint for action for regional Indigenous homelessness projects in Mt Isa, Cairns, and Townsville / Thuringowa. The blueprint details strategies to be implemented in cooperation with all stakeholders in each of the communities. Five strategic areas underpin the direction of the blueprint and will guide future efforts in the three regions...

This is the first report from the project, Counting the Homeless in 2001, a research program focusing on Australia's homeless population at the time of the 2001 Census of Population and Housing. This report presents the main findings from the second national census of homeless school students, and estimates the total number of homeless young...

For young people, the transition to independent living is one of the most important – and probably exciting, difficult and emotionally charged – decisions they will ever make. For most, it means severing their links with parents, home and much that they have been familiar with all their lives. For a minority, it may represent...