BYRON SHIRE HOMELESSNESS SURVEY ROLLED OUT FOR CONNECTIONS WEEK
November 17, 2021 - Thousands of people are sleeping rough across the state – almost 200 of them in the Byron Shire. This week, the local council is taking steps to address the issue, conducting a survey as part of Connections Week.
PRIME 7 NEWS REPORTS ON THE BYRON SHIRE CONNECTIONS WEEK
November 17, 2021 - Prime 7 News: End Street Sleeping Collaboration Convenor, Graham West has been in Byron Shire supporting local collaboration leaders as they stage The first Regional Connections Week using new By Name List technology. Click here to view.
CONNECTIONS WEEK IN BYRON SHIRE ON ABC BREAKFAST
November 17, 2021 - ABC North Coast: Listen to collaboration partner Tony Davies and Dr Gregory Smith, an academic who has slept rough in the past, talk about the Ending Rough Sleeping Byron Shire work at Connections Week, 16-20 November 2020.
BYRON’S WORLD-FIRST APPROACH TO REDUCING ROUGH SLEEPING
November 11, 2021 - Press Release: Byron Shire will be the first community in the world to pilot an innovative real-time digital platform to help drive a reduction in the number of people sleeping rough across the region. Click here to download the press release.
IF WE REALISED THE TRUE COST OF HOMELESSNESS, WE'D FIX IT OVERNIGHT
September 22, 2021 - The Conversation: Australia’s six-month moratorium on evictions is due to end soon. Some states have extended the moratorium, but when it ends that’s likely to force even more Australians into housing insecurity and outright homelessness. Click here to read the article.
THE SHORT-TERM ECONOMIC STIMULUS THAT WILL DELIVER LONG-TERM SOCIAL DIVIDENDS TO NSW
August 18, 2021 - Sydney Morning Herald: At a time when residential housing construction is in decline and tens of thousands of people are sleeping rough, living in overcrowded, unsafe conditions or spending years on social housing waiting lists, there is one fiscal policy lever that elegantly addresses both challenges – the construction of more social and affordable housing. Click here to read the article.
Our first financial year comes to a close and it has been quite an adventure
July 30, 2021 - End Street Sleeping Collaboration: With only nine months as a legal entity End Street Sleeping Collaboration (ESSC) has made some progress that we’d never thought imaginable and has faced challenges that we’d never dreamed of. Like all people and organisations, the pandemic has shifted our priorities and program rollout. Here’s an update for you, our valued supporters and those who have registered your interest in the work of the Collaboration, without whom we would never have been able to progress so far.
Thank you for all you have done to get the End Street Sleeping Collaboration started. We’re looking forward to working with you in the upcoming year as we press forward toward our shared goal of ending street sleeping across NSW.
MAJOR EXPANSION OF LIFE-CHANGING PROGRAM TO HOUSE HOMELESS IN NSW BUDGET
Read how a NSW program that has taken 422 rough sleepers off the streets and into their own homes is getting a major, multimillion-dollar expansion
7AM PODCAST - THE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS AUSTRALIA SHOULD HAVE SEEN COMING. LISTEN TO THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE ON ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST AT RISK GROUPS.
There are growing fears that homelessness could soon rise in Australia. One of the most at risk groups in the country is older women, who face both age and gender discrimination.
Listen to Kristine Ziwica on the homelessness crisis Australia should have seen coming.
NEW YORK TIMES - READ THE OPINION PIECE ON HOW THE U.S. IS USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY AS END STREET SLEEPING COLLABORATION TO IDENTIFY, SUPPORT, AND HOUSE PEOPLE.
March 2021 - Internationally knowing people by name and their stories is starting to show real results, and attract funding and support.
NEW GRANT AWARDED BY THE CITY OF SYDNEY TO THE HAYMARKET FOUNDATION TO HELP END COMPLEX HOMELESSNESS
March 2021 - The End Street Sleeping Collaboration is working with the Haymarket Foundation to stop the cycle of homelessness for some of Sydney’s most vulnerable people. Read how they are doing this, with the help of a grant from the City of Sydney.
Visit haymarket.org.au for further information
THE COLLABORATION PRESENTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS NGO WORKING GROUP HOMELESSNESS & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
February, 2021 - Christine McBride, CEO of the Collaboration, recorded a video presentation that was viewed by delegates attending a conference focused on exploring the role of technology in ending homelessness across the world. The By-Name List video was viewed alongside the IGH presentation on its Vanguard Cities program.
How you can help Australia's homeless
June 10 2020 - SBS
Handing money to someone on the street provides temporary relief, but donating to an organisation means your money goes further in supporting the most vulnerable people in society. Click here to read more.
If Australia really wants to tackle mental health after coronavirus, we must take action on homelessness
June 10 2020 - The Conversation
The COVID-19 pandemic has opened fault lines in social, economic and health-care policy in Australia. One area in which all three converge is homelessness. Click here to read more.
HAS THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC PROVED THAT HOMELESSNESS IS SOLVABLE?
June 8 2020 - ABC News
In the days before the coronavirus shutdown took effect, a massive operation was underway in Australia's capital cities — to get more than 7,000 homeless people off the streets. Click here to read more
NSW LAUNCHES $36 MILLION PROGRAM TO GET ROUGH SLEEPERS INTO HOMES
June 8 2020 - Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW government will spend $36 million on getting rough sleepers into permanent homes in what it describes as the biggest investment to tackle street homelessness in the state's history. Click here to read more.
HOME-BUYER GRANTS HELP DEVELOPERS, BUT MONEY FOR SOCIAL HOUSING IS REAL CONSTRUCTION STIMULUS
June 2 2020 - The Guardian
Fewer homes will be built in Australia during the coronavirus downturn, which means job losses in construction. But we need to be smart about stimulus. Click here to read more.
ROUGH SLEEPERS COULD BE BACK ON THE STREETS AFTER CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS EASE
May 22 2020 - SBS News
Rough sleepers staying in hotels and motels across Australia may be back on the streets unless the federal government invests in housing, advocates warn. Click here to read more.
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS
May 19, 2020 - NSW Government
Former Minister Ward, Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services, announces Neami National's role in helping those people who had been sleeping rough before Covid-19 move from hotel accommodation to permanent housing. Click here to find out more.
GROUND-BREAKING APP HELPS SUPPORT NSW HOMELESS
May 15, 2020 - Microsoft
When most Australians are staying at home, the plight of those sleeping on the streets is particularly contrasted. Thanks to a new app, we are working to help turn this around. Click here to find out more.
ROOF FOR NOW
April 20, 2020 - The Project, Channel 10
Right now there’s a small glimmer of hope for some of the homeless in this country.
And as Tom Tilley finds out coronavirus might just get the blame for some good news. Click here to watch the clip.
'WE CAN'T GO BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE': COVID-19 SHIFTS HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE
April 8, 2020 - Pro Bono News
The coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to get the nation’s rough sleepers off the street and into secure housing, social sector leaders say. Click here to read more.
WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS?
March 23, 2020 - The Project, Channel 10
Tom Tilley met up with some of Sydney's homeless to find out what the coronavirus means for them, and what the government can do to support some of the most vulnerable during this crisis. Click here to watch the clip.
COUNCILS JOIN STREET COUNTS IN BID TO HALVE NUMBER OF 'ROUGH SLEEPERS'
February 17, 2020 - Sydney Morning Herald
Councils across NSW are pushing ahead with street counts of homeless people in hundreds of suburbs, under the state government's ambition to halve the number of "street sleepers" by 2025. Click here to read more.
NSW TO CREATE DIGITAL HOMELESSNESS DATABASE
November 25, 2019 - Government News
The NSW government is using mobile devices and geolocation technology to create an index of rough sleepers which it says will help target vulnerable people and prioritise specialist services. Click here to find out more.
STREET SLEEPING IS SOLVABLE: GOVERNMENT, TECH & NGOS TEAM UP TO END ROUGH SLEEPING
November 18, 2019 - Media Release
This week in Sydney a team of volunteers and professionals hit the streets of Sydney in the early morning hours and late at night to collect the personal stories of people sleeping rough. Click here to find out more
HOMELESSNESS IN NSW REACHES ‘CRISIS POINT’
August 27, 2019 - Pro Bono News
Crisis accommodation for people experiencing homelessness in Sydney has almost hit capacity, new data shows, prompting calls for an urgent injection of social housing across the state. Click here to find out more.
AUSSIE VETERANS LEFT SLEEPING ROUGH
August 19, 2019 - Pro Bono News
Australian defence veterans using homelessness services are twice as likely to be sleeping rough compared to non-veterans seeking specialist support, new data shows. Click here to find out more.
IF YOU LEFT JAIL WITH $275 AND TWO NIGHTS IN A MOTEL, WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
August 17, 2019 - ABC News
This is the situation for many Australian inmates when they first get out of jail, if they have nowhere else to go.
Jason, 49, recently got out of Grafton Correctional Centre after serving six months for assault. ABC Regional reporter Liz Keen followed his journey between rural prisons, roadside motels and homelessness. Click here to read more
FIVE LESSONS AUSTRALIA COULD LEARN FROM WALES ON ENDING HOMELESSNESS
August 7, 2019 - Pro Bono News
Homelessness is on the rise in Australia, and advocates say attempts to reduce the rising numbers have been fruitless. But Wales is treating the issue a little differently, and it’s making a difference. So what could Australia learn from Wales? We found out. Click here to read more.
FUNDS FOR HOUSING, NEW LAWS NEEDED TO END HOMELESSNESS IN AUSTRALIA, SAY EXPERTS
August 7, 2019 - Domain.com
A law to prevent people from becoming homeless, similar to those introduced in Wales four years ago, is one of the bold new ideas being put forward by experts to tackle Australia’s growing crisis. Click here to read more.
13 PER CENT INCREASE IN HOMELESS FIGURES SINCE LAST YEAR, KOGARAH MEETING TOLD
August 7, 2019 - The Leader
The number of people sleeping rough in the city of Sydney has grown 13 per cent in one year, a meeting at Kogarah on homelessness was told today. Click here to read more.
HOMELESSNESS 'DUTY TO ASSIST' LAW COULD FORCE GOVERNMENT TO HELP THOSE IN CRISIS
August 7, 2019 - SBS News
Australian authorities are being urged to consider a new "duty to assist" law that would force governments to help homeless people find accommodation, amid warnings homelessness is spiralling out of control and funding is drying up. Click here to read more
NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS WEEK: WHY HOUSING WON'T SOLVE EVERYTHING FOR PEOPLE IN NEED
August 6, 2019 - Channel 7 - The Daily Edition
End Street Sleeping Advocate, Skye Leckie, speaks out in Homelessness Week to raise awareness of the issue and the End Street Sleeping Collaboration. Click here to watch clip.
NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS WEEK: CAMERON DADDO AND SKYE LECKIE FIGHT FOR MORE RESOURCES
August 6, 2019 - Channel 7 - The Morning Show
Cameron Daddo and Skye Leckie are continuing to advocate for more funding and resources after their experience on the reality show Filthy Rich and Homeless, which saw them living on the streets for 10 days. Click here to watch the clip.
NUMBER OF ROUGH SLEEPERS IN REGIONAL AREAS TO BE COUNTED FOR THE FIRST TIME
August 5, 2019 - Sydney Morning Herald
The number of people sleeping rough in major regional and rural centres in NSW will be counted for the first time, as part of the Berejiklian government's bid to halve street homelessness by 2025. Click here to read more.