Focus area 4
Housing supply Victoria urgently needs more social and affordable housing. Our purpose-built homes add to supply and provide safe, appropriate housing for people experiencing homelessness.
Impact Measure 3
Housing supply Victoria urgently needs more social and affordable housing. Our purpose-built homes add to supply and provide safe, appropriate housing for people experiencing homelessness.
Families and new beginnings More families are entering homelessness. Our evidence shows that integrated, multidisciplinary, child and family-centred models deliver lasting outcomes. In short Family
Launch Housing’s Private Rental Assistance Program (PRAP) helps people like Michelle maintain their tenancies and stay out of the homelessness service system. Practical and timely
Increase in number of clients financially assisted to establish or sustain tenancies Summary Analysis The average payment to keep people housed is just under $2,000
Watch Amy’s story about her journey of homelessness, motherhood, and finding her new path.
Increase in clients who have a positive transition into secure housing We know that housing first works. When people have housing combined with appropriate support,
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live and work. As we create safe and welcoming homes, we honour the people of the Kulin nation and their enduring connection to their home we call Naarm, Melbourne.
We pay our respects to all First Nations Elders, past and present.
It is important that we acknowledge that the contemporary housing experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people cannot be separated from their historical experience of dispossession and dislocation. Aboriginal Victorians are overrepresented in the population experiencing homelessness, with census data confirming that Aboriginal Victorians experience homelessness at over five times the rate for non-Aboriginal people.
We support the development of a culturally safe Aboriginal housing and homelessness sector based on principles of self-determination and will continue to do what we can to help make this happen.
We are committed to understanding how our services are impacting Aboriginal clients and, where relevant, we have disaggregated our 10 Impact Measures to report Aboriginal client outcomes.