A hyper-local approach to ending street homelessness is being trialled in Melbourne, and it involves adding rough sleepers to a special list. | jeweltopsfield and rachael_dexter
Paul’s pathway off the streets and into a home started with something simple but powerful: his name was added to a list.
“It’s an early-stage result, but it’s still very, very encouraging, and it’s better than most other results that we’ve had in our programs over the past 20 years or so,” says Mayor Marcus Pearl. They are only taken off the list if they have obtained secure long-term housing, moved out of the area or services have not been able to contact them for more than 90 days.Guy Johnson, a professor of homelessness at RMIT, said it was misleading to suggest someone was no longer homeless if they had moved out of the area or were uncontactable.“Most likely, they’re still homeless,” Johnson says. “Any conclusions that you draw from that data are going to be flawed.
Key to Port Phillip Zero’s success has been 15 services working together rather than operating separately. But there is still the challenge of a lack of social housing, withIn July 2020, the Victorian government announced the From Homelessness to a Hotel program, providing $167 million to house and support people who were put up in hotels during lockdowns.
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