3-Tertiary Homelessness Case Study

PROJECT.

An evaluation of industry and Government processes in relation to funding.

In June 2005 the Queensland Government announced funding $235.5 million over four years to deliver a coordinated response to homelessness and public intoxication. The responding to Homelessness Strategy initially involved the implementation of 32 projects across seven, but reducing to five government departments and was conducted in three phases. The Strategy aimed to achieve a number of improvements in the homelessness service system as follows. Initiatives were successful in increasing the quantum of accommodation and support services, but these gains have been overtaken by released latent and newly emerging demand.

People experiencing homelessness in the

2-Secondary homelessness refers to people who move frequently from one form of temporary shelter to another. For example staying with friends and relatives, accessing specialist services, emergency accommodation services.

3-Tertiary homelessness refers to people who living in medium to long term housing below the minimum community standards such as people living in boarding house or caravan parks. Some people experience homelessness only once, usually caused by a short term crisis or event. For others, homelessness is long-term and often experienced in repeated episodes. These people are more likely to sleeping rough and to cycle through the support system.

The causes of homelessness are varied and complex. A shortage of affordable housing, poverty and structural disadvantage, family breakdown and domestic violence, unemployment, mental illness.

The proposed response to homelessness will be implemented through three strategies: turning off the tap, better prevention of homelessness, improving and expanding services to assist a greater number of homelessness people and breaking the cycle of homelessness by proving long term housing and