The recently concluded Homelessness Week 2023, observed from 7 to 13 August brought critical attention to the Australia’s housing crisis and its far-reaching implications.

A new and unique fundraising event from St Vincent De Paul Society WA aims to be a great motivation for supporters to ensure participants have the ultimate bragging rights.

Last Thursday leaders in business, community and government slept without shelter on one of the longest nights of the year to help change the lives of Australians experiencing homelessness. That included Willetton priests Frs Thai Vu and CJ Millen and parish members Louis Pang, Howard Ong, Ken Patterson and Byron Maverick.

In sharing her thoughts during Western Australian Youth Week, St John of God Healthcare Homelessness and Support Services Director Naomi Boyd says that the less visible reality of youth homelessness is that there are thousands of young people in Australia who are not yet homeless but are living in homes that don’t provide the necessary physical or emotional safety. Photo: Supplied. By Naomi...

Sky view of a regional town in central western New South Wales. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger cities. Photo: Adobe. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger c...

Grace Anglican Church started a drop-in café at the church, offering lunch to the homeless and vulnerable every Monday and Friday from 10am to 2pm.

Over 9,000 people experience homelessness every day in WA and over 30,000 people are on the wait list for social housing. The Record podcast speaks to Centrecare Incorporated Director Adjunct Professor Tony Pietropiccolo AM to discuss why the state is in this crisis and how community support towards people faced with poverty and homelessness, makes a difference. By Amanda Murthy.

Leaders from organisations providing emergency relief funding, support to renters in the private rental market, and peak bodies have established a Housing Emergency Response group to identify and drive immediate solutions that will mitigate the impact and harm of the housing crisis. By Contributor.

A talented young artist from Maylands, Britt Mikkelson, has won some $25,000, taking out the Acquisitive Prize (sponsored by St John of God Health Care) in this year’s Mandorla Art Awards with a sculptural work representing the volume of homeless people in Australia, 8200 Souls.

A Western Australian living on the gross national minimum wage in 2018 would have to survive on $719.20 weekly.
With rising living cost and housing prices, the amount was certainly inadequate, which would increase the poverty rate and hence homelessness in the State.
The Shopfront is the Archdiocesan agency fully committed to fighting homelessness and helping those in need.