A Victorian housing program that has helped more than 100 Indigenous people escape or avoid homelessness in the past year has been quietly axed.
Funding for the 12-month pilot program, run through Homes Victoria, ended on June 1. The state government did not say why it had been scrapped but said it had “provided valuable insights into the challenges and complexities that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander renters face in social housing”.
The association said those helped by the program included a young Aboriginal man with a disability and spinal cancer, who was almost left homeless in Broadmeadows in Melbourne’s north-west, after his father died recently.It also helped several Aboriginal women fleeing violent relationships to secure safe social housing with their children. An Aboriginal man who had been homeless for more than four years was also given permanent housing with the support of the program.
“Homes Victoria is committed to improving housing outcomes for Aboriginal Victorians,” he said. “We’re expanding the Aboriginal Private Rental Assistance Program and increasing the capacity of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations to become housing providers.” The Australian Bureau of Statistics recent homelessness estimates reported a 42 per cent increase in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victorians without a home in the five years since the previous census.compared data from the 2021 census with the previous survey in 2016, finding homelessness had increased alarmingly across the state in the past five years.
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