The Housing First Development Collection showcases a range of Australian and international Housing First programs, demonstrating how Housing First has been applied to date while providing a starting point for practitioners, service providers, policy-makers and Community Housing Providers eager to implement Housing First.
The very nature of permanent supportive housing means that in order to support more individuals, the need to acquire homes is imperative. This collection hopes to inspire your aspirations for developing housing units that will conform to best practice and contribute towards ending homelessness.
Housing First models
Housing First
provides independent and permanent housing
to people experiencing long term, and reoccurring, homelessness
Moorditj Mia (Strong Home) – Australia’s first Aboriginal Housing First Support Service, offers culturally-secure homelessness outreach services to Aboriginal people. It’s led by Noongar Mia…
Veterans are recognised as a population at higher risk of homelessness and are less likely to access mainstream homelessness services than the general population. On…
In November 2021 Noongar Mia Mia launched the Noongar Housing First Principles. Titled Noongar Cultural Framework and Noongar Housing First Principles there development not only…
Shelter WA has welcomed the release of the final report of the Commonwealth House of Representatives Committee Inquiry into Homelessness in Australia. The Committee received…