Brisbane city during 50 Lives 50 Homes registry week in June 2010. Photography: Patrick Hamilton.

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Posted 01-12-2025
REPORT: Everybody's Business: What local government can do to end homelessness

By Leanne Mitchell, Churchill Fellow 2019

In 2022, AAEH General Manager, System Change and Partnerships, Leanne Mitchell undertook a Churchill Fellowship investigating how councils can respond to homelessness while balancing responsibilities to the wider community.

Her report, Everybody’s Business, focuses on the contribution local government can make towards ending homelessness and provides practical guidelines and case studies to assist councils in taking action.

Leanne works with councils around Australia to build knowledge, skills and experiences in responding homelessness. Read her report and reach out to info@aaeh.org.au if you would like to learn more.

Posted 03-04-2024
ARTICLE: Homelessness is Solvable: How We Can End it in Australia

By David Pearson, Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

Originally published in Parity magazine, Volume 36 – Issue 9, November 2023.

Posted 05-12-2023
POSITION PAPER: Ending Homelessness Through Inclusive Healthcare

By the Australian Health, Housing & Homelessness Network (A3HN)

This position paper details the strategic direction supported by the A3HN to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness in Australia.

Posted 14-11-2023
REPORT: Submission to National Housing and Homelessness Plan Issues Paper – A Transformational Plan to End Homelessness

By the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

Posted 10-11-2023
REPORT: Homelessness is solvable: How we can end it in Australia

By David Pearson, Churchill Fellow 2020

In October 2023, David Pearson, CEO of the AAEH, launched his final report as a part of his Churchill Fellowship: Homelessness is solvable: How we can end it in Australia.

The report documents David's learnings on how international communities are systemically ending homelessness, and offers cross-sector recommendations on how we can end homelessness in Australia.

Posted 17-02-2023
ARTICLE: It's time to end street deaths - by David Pearson

by David Pearson, Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

Originally published via melbournezero.org.au - January 2023

In communities across Australia, it’s a tragic fact that people are dying whilst homeless every year. Health and homelessness are intrinsically linked, and international studies have shown that experiencing rough sleeping homelessness can reduce life expectancy by approximately 30 years; and that as many as one in three deaths were attributable to conditions that could have been prevented or treated.

Posted 11-01-2023
ARTICLE: Ending Homelessness in Australia: The Need for a National Plan

By Leanne Lester and Paul Flatau, The Centre for Social Impact, The University of Western Australia.

Originally published in Parity magazine, Volume 35 – Issue 8, October 2022.

Posted 11-01-2023
ARTICLE: Known Knowns: Towards a National Housing and Homelessness Plan

By Karyn Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, Micah Projects.

Originally published in Parity magazine, Volume 35 – Issue 8, October 2022.

Posted 11-01-2023
ARTICLE: Why We Need a National Housing and Ending Homelessness Plan

By David Pearson, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Alliance to End Homelessness.

Originally published in Parity magazine, Volume 35 – Issue 8, October 2022.

Posted 09-08-2022
Solving Homelessness - How we can end homelessness in Australia

Report by David Pearson, Churchill Fellow awarded to study overseas efforts to end homelessness by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

This report is part one of two, covering the first stage of David's Fellowship to the United States of America.