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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?

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) welcomes the final report on the inquiry into homelessness in Australia by the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, and is urging the Australian Government to implement a number of the report’s recommendations before June 2022.

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) have joined forces to urge the Australian Government to show leadership on this critical issue by urgently commissioning a national homelessness deaths and life expectancy gap reporting framework.

New research by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the University of Western Australian (UWA) reveals that an estimated 134 people died while sleeping rough in NSW last year.

New research by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Home2Health team is helping to raise national awareness of rough sleeping homelessness deaths, marking the first Australian study of its kind to collect data around this tragic, largely overlooked occurrence.