Council to Homeless Persons

Everybody’s Home

Everybody’s Home

Investing in social and affordable housing

TOTAL GRANTED

$136,000

Tackling Inequality

Impact AreaTackling Inequality

Year First Supported 2020

Council to Homeless Persons Organisation Council to Homeless Persons

Council to Homeless Persons is the peak body representing organisations and individuals in Victoria with a commitment to ending homelessness. CHP's vision is to end homelessness in Victoria. CNP work towards this goal through leadership in policy and advocacy, building the capacity of Victoria’s homelessness sector, and working in partnership with people who are or who have been without a home.

Investing in social and affordable housing

Everybody’s Home is a national campaign to fix the housing crisis. It was launched in 2018 by a coalition of housing, homelessness and welfare organisations to achieve the change needed so everybody has a safe and decent place to live.

Issue

Every night more than 116,000 Australians are homeless. Over the past decades, rents have been growing faster than incomes, particularly for low income earners. That means more people paying more rent than they can afford, and more people left without a home at all. Homeownership has been declining for decades as well, particularly among young people. The Covid-19 crisis supercharged homelessness, with tens of thousands more Australians losing their homes.

Across Australia home prices and rents are skyrocketing, pushing more people into housing stress. Our shrinking proportion of social housing means there is nowhere to go for families pushed out of the rental market.

Response

Everybody’s Home is working together to call on Australian governments to bring balance back to the system.

The Impact Fund supported the campaign in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, as more Australians were being forced into homelessness. But this moment also presented an opportunity: the prospect of achieving a significant social housing investment is also greater now that social housing construction can contribute to economic stimulus, more so than at any time since the Global Financial Crisis.

Everybody’s Home is continuing to campaign for investment in social housing that so everybody has a place to cal lhome.

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