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Latest news: Homelessness

20 Homes by Christmas campaign needs properties within 4 weeks

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Canberra real estate agent Jonny Warren says his campaign has nearly 200 offers of help, but Housing ACT has yet to allocate the 20 homes.

Homelessness Week: Anglicare

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Homelessness is worsening in the ACT, because housing insecurity is reaching people considered financially stable, Trevor Ament says.

Homelessness Week: The Early Morning Centre

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Every day, between 70 and 100 people come through the doors of the Early Morning Centre, a Civic community hub for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and social isolation.  They may...

Homelessness Week: Vigil for the victims

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Homelessness Week begins today. The ACT’s first memorial vigil will be held tonight at Havelock House. Advocates call for action.

GPs sought for mobile clinic helping homeless Canberrans

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Street Side Medics seeks volunteer medical practitioners for its first ACT mobile clinic, providing free healthcare for homeless Canberrans.

Youth homelessness in Canberra

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Advocates say the scale of youth homelessness in Canberra is not fully known, and that support services should focus more on prevention.

Pocock and frontline services call for support for most vulnerable

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Frontline organisations, backed by Senator Pocock, call for targeted supports to stop food and housing insecurity spiralling out of control.

Housing and homelessness worsening in Australia: ACOSS

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The federal government is spending more on property investors' tax breaks than on social housing, homelessness services and rent assistance.

Voices from the frontline: The Early Morning Centre

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Homeless people come from any background — and homelessness can happen to anybody, says Nicole Wiggins, director of The Early Morning Centre.

Canberra in Crisis: ACT Shelter

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“Tackling the housing crisis is the defining social and economic challenge of our time," says housing peak body CEO Corinne Dobson.

Facing homelessness together: Vinnies CEO Sleepout 2025

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Vinnies’ annual CEO Sleepout — the charity’s biggest fundraiser — will take place at Old Parliament House in June.

Homelessness Week: Housing is a human right, says Pocock

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To mark Homelessness Week, Independent Senator David Pocock and Alicia Payne MP visited the Early Morning Centre.

Independents for Canberra commit to end homelessness crisis

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Independents for Canberra would guarantee Housing ACT sufficient funding to reduce the housing waiting lists and end child homelessness.

Nearly 900 homeless children in the ACT

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Homelessness Australia’s 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot reveals that 868 children presented to ACT homelessness services in 2022–23.

Public housing crisis: Strong Independents call for action

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Strong Independents released their social housing policy: the next government must double social housing quickly to end homelessness.

‘Not all heroes wear capes’: HelpingACT marks one year of homeless barbecues

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Mohammed Ali's food charity HelpingACT marks one year of barbecues for homeless people outside the Early Morning Centre.
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