Briefing: Permanent Supportive Housing project

The WAAEH, AAEH, and Micah Projects have been undertaking an innovative collaboration with the US-based Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) to develop an Australian Supportive Housing Framework and Needs Assessment model.

On Friday, 19 July 2024, the WAAEH and Micah Projects hosted a national online briefing session with CSH. This session allowed participants to learn more about the project and explore how this approach could be applied in their communities to create the supportive housing options needed to end homelessness.

CSH has over 15 years’ experience providing data modelling to quantify supportive housing needs and costs for over 30 communities. Through this project, CSH is facilitating conversations on implementing supportive housing in Australia, compiling best practices and making recommendations for quality metrics, operating guidelines and costs for developing supportive housing.

The collaboration focuses on:

1. Modelling intervention needs using local homelessness data to target vulnerable groups.
2. Conducting modelling to determine investments to scale up supportive housing and services to end homelessness.
3. Forecast projections will quantify the required investments.
4. The development of a shared methodology framework including defining what Supportive Housing is.

24/07/2024 News