In 2024, grants were provided to nine organisations to help prevent or end homelessness, particularly concerning women.
- A grant to Uniting WA is providing housing and support to four young mums and their children, who would otherwise be homeless.
- A project funded with the Older Women’s Network Blue Mountains has already housed 20 women aged over 55 years, who were at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
- A grant to Prison Network in Victoria is developing a pilot program to assist women leaving prison to access housing, employment and therapeutic care.
- A project with the Northern Community Legal Centre has assisted 33 clients to resolve legal issues that might otherwise lead to homelessness or financial hardship.
- Cana Communities has assisted 46 women and men to participate in an Art Therapy program that has helped 28 people to access housing and to maintain their tenancies.
- Grants to Lighthouse Foundation and the Sisters of Charity Foundation has helped to house and support a total of ten survivors of modern slavery.
Grants were also provided to the Western Australia Alliance to End Homelessness to develop modelling for supportive housing and another grant awarded to the House of Welcome is assisting women to find employment and long-term housing.
Housing is a fundamental human right. Unsafe or precarious housing and homelessness is deeply detrimental to health and well-being. We congratulate all our grant recipients who work tirelessly to end and prevent homelessness for some of the most marginalised groups in our country.
