Homelessness is related to a range of social issues. 

2010 Facts Sheets

Please click on the titles below to download the fact sheets (pdf).

Updated Homelessness and Poverty

One of our Alice Springs forum speakers from Centrelink has kindly sent us a fact sheet: click here to read

Homelessness in Australia

Affordable Housing

Homelessness and Older Australians

Homelessness and Children

Homelessness and Disabilities: please click here for WWDA's Green Paper submission

Homelessness and ex-prisoners: click here for a great website on this issue

Homelessness and Families

Homelessness and Indigenous Australians

Read this report for an insight in to Indigenous remote communites- Being Undesirable: law, health and life in Darwin's Long Grass

Homelessness and NESB/CALD

Housing and Homelessness: Challenges for Immigrant and Refugee Women - Report

Homelessness and Women

Homelessness and Young People

Safe in OZ : http://www.safeinoz.com.au/

Addresses specialist mental health issues through training workshops and consultancy services. SAFE in Oz provides training to professionals to allow them to better understand the concept of self-abuse and working with individuals who self-abuse. We also train workers to facilitate, on a group and one-to-one level utilising a module based consumer recovery package. Click here for their latest newsletter

Housing Australia fact sheet provided by National Shelter: click here for more

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender young people: click here for information on this great website

Rural and remote homelessness

Overcoming Barriers - a Homelessness Australia study of Homeless Service Delivery

Homelessness and ex-prisoners: click here for a great website on this issue

Click on these fabulous clearinghouses with numerous resources:

AUSTRALIAN CLEARINGHOUSE FOR YOUTH STUDIES

AUSTRALIAN DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE CLEARINGHOUSE

MOST CLEARING HOUSE BEST PRACTICES (INTERNATIONAL)

NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE

Full article: The Links between Domestic/Family Violence and Homelessness for Women and Children by Pauline Woodbridge and Julie Oberin as presented to the Network of Immigrant and Refugee Women Australia (NIRWA) Forum Click Here

The Disappearing Age: A Strategy to Address Violence Against Older Women

Would you like a pile of fact sheets in word, pdf or jpg emailed or posted to you?  Email Aileen: media@homelessnessaustralia.org.au Phone: 02 6247 7744