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This Victorian Election, we can make a difference
With your support, we can make a major difference in the lives of people experiencing homelessness and disadvantage this State Election. Will you use your vote to change lives?
What’s the problem?
- Over 24,000 Victorians and 116,000 Australians are experiencing homelessness on any given night. ¹
- Approximately 7 percent of Australians experiencing homelessness are rough sleeping. However, this figure is likely to be much higher. ¹
- Between 1.5 and 2 million Australians at risk of homelessness – all of whom reside in rental housing. ²
- The wider social and economical costs of inadequate social housing supply in Victoria are estimated at $141.2 million per year. These costs are expected to increase to $263.7 million by 2036. ³
What do we want?
Build social housing
Support housing-first programs
Improve health care access
Reform the housing and homelessness system
5 things you can do
- Vote
Give your vote to a party that is committed to making a difference for our most vulnerable. Check the VCOSS Policy Tracker to find out about the social pledges made by Labor, the Coalition and the Greens. - Talk to your friends about their choice
Share this page with your friends and family and have a chat with them about how they can support people without a home this federal election. - Stay in touch
Subscribe to our newsletter, Heartbeat, to stay informed on how you can help end homelessness this federal election and beyond. - Join the movement
Sign up for the Everybody’s Home campaign for a better, fairer housing system for everyone; and don’t forget to support the Raise The Rate campaign, because everyone should have enough to cover the basics! - Tell your MP what’s important to you
Find your local MP and urge them to commit to ending homelessness.
Hear from our staff ambassadors
Social housing
Housing-first
Health care access
Reform of the homelessness service system
Sources
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2018: Census of Population and Housing: Estimating Homelessness.
- AHURI, 2021: A nationwide analysis of the risk of homelessness in Australia. Based on AHURI Final Report No. 370: Estimating the population at-risk of homelessness in small areas.
- Nygaard, C.A., 2022: Consequence of inaction: Social and economic losses from the social and affordable housing shortage; The urgent case for social and affordable housing investment. Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Urban Transitions, Melbourne.
Media contact
For media enquiries about our State Election campaign, please contact communication@sacredheartmission.org.
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