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.
Key Focus Areas 2025
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.
Health and wellbeing Homelessness and poor health are deeply interconnected. Our integrated models show that integrating healthcare supports into housing helps build stability and trust.
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
Workforce Workforce instability limits the sector’s ability to meet rising demand. Our focus is on investing in a stable, diverse workforce with lived experience and
Cultural safety and security Mainstream systems lack cultural safety. We are walking alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and First Nations communities to support self-determination and
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.