AtoZ Factsheet – The role of local government in ending homelessness in WA

Local governments have an important role to play in helping to end homelessness. As the level of government closest to the community and often most directly impacted by homelessness, they are in a unique position to advance a shared community vision to end homelessness.

Local communities drawing on best practice to make homelessness rare, brief and once-off are seeing downward shifts in homelessness. The City of Mandurah in WA is a case study of a local government committed to ending homelessness and working together with their community to prevent and solve homelessness.

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