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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.

New research by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the University of Western Australian (UWA) reveals that an estimated 90 people died while sleeping rough in Queensland last year.

New research by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) and the University of Western Australian (UWA) reveals that an estimated 20 people died while sleeping rough in South Australia last year.

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) offers the following comments on Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund announcement.

With no plans in place to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccinations for people experiencing homelessness, the Australian Health, Housing and Homelessness Network (A3HN) and the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) are calling for urgent action from the Australian and state governments.

In its inaugural national forum on Friday 23 April, the Australian Health, Housing & Homelessness Network (A3HN), supported by cohealth in Victoria and Micah Projects in Queensland, will explore the impact of COVID-19 on people sleeping rough, what action is being taken and what more needs to occur.

On March 18, The Salvation Army, RSL Queensland and the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH), will together launch a new event series to drive awareness and understanding of how to end veterans rough sleeping homelessness.

In 2020, the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (AAEH) launched for the first time a series of public webinars and training sessions to help communities across Australia end homelessness.

This year, a new series of virtual training sessions will run to equip individuals, communities and organisations with the tools and knowledge they need to not just better manage or reduce homelessness but to end it.

As we approach the Christmas break, the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness is calling for policy change on top of charity efforts this festive season to end homelessness in Australia for good.