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New data released today by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) shows that more than one in four people experiencing persistent homelessness live with a brain injury – more than 13 times the rate of the general population.

The data features in Supportive Housing: The what, why and how, a new position paper developed by an alliance of national homelessness and housing peak bodies, service providers and advocates. Launched ahead of World Homeless Day on Saturday 10 October, the paper calls on federal, state and territory governments to establish a national Supportive Housing system – a specialist type of housing offering ongoing housing combined with ongoing wraparound support – for the small but significant group of people whose needs cannot be met by conventional housing and support models.

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the End Street Sleeping Collaboration (ESSC) are merging, bringing together expertise, networks and work under one organisation that will accelerate progress toward ending homelessness in New South Wales and across Australia.

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) is proud to announce that the Advance to Zero (AtoZ) initiative has been awarded a prestigious World Habitat Award, presented annually in partnership with UN-Habitat. This international recognition highlights the transformative work being done across Australian communities to end homelessness, starting with rough sleeping.

David Pearson, CEO of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH), has released a groundbreaking report titled "Homelessness is solvable: How we can end it in Australia."

The report, a culmination of Pearson's extensive research during his Churchill Fellowship in 2022 and 2023, offers cross-sector recommendations and actions to end homelessness in Australia, emphasising the urgent need for a national housing and ending homelessness strategy.

Today’s release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2021 Census data on estimating homelessness paints a picture of a bad situation getting worse, with the data revealing a 5.2% increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness nationally between 2016 and 2021 – or 6,067 people.

Communities around Australia will converge in Brisbane for the nation’s first Summit to End Homelessness at the end of the month, which will showcase proven and measurable strategies that have underpinned the successful end to homelessness in communities from Canada and the United States of America.

Communities from across Australia met this week to discuss how to better prepare for natural disasters and extreme weather events to ensure people experiencing homelessness are accounted for and provided with adequate support.

The Centre for Social Impact (CSI), the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and Neami National have launched a comprehensive new report that demonstrates how solvable homelessness is in Australia.

Very little is known about the deaths of homeless people. The deaths of people living on the street and in the parklands aren't counted. Unvalued and forgotten except by other street people and their workers, the deaths of homeless people are a hidden tragedy.

You can’t change what you don’t measure — so goes the saying. We frequently measure metrics such as the unemployment rate and road fatalities, which in turn, are used to drive government policy and budget decisions. However, there remains a vast gap in our knowledge base about dying homeless in Australia. And without concrete evidence, how can you drive and measure change?