July Pulse: Lets talk about the weather and math!

July Pulse Session Update

At July’s Pulse session, participants shared updates from across the sector, including the release of Shelter WA’s Income Eligibility Project Final Report, one of the projects supported through our 2024/25 Pulse program.

Pulse sessions provide a valuable opportunity for members and partners to connect, share emerging work, and explore how activities across the sector contribute to the WA Alliance’s Strategy

Supporting our Strategic Challenge 5: Building Community Engagement, this segment gives partners and sector stakeholders the opportunity to share current initiatives, emerging developments, and opportunities for collaboration. These regular updates help strengthen connections across the homelessness and housing ecosystem and highlight the collective effort underway to end homelessness in Western Australia.

Problem Solving Session

The July Problem Solving Session focused on Strategic Driver 4: Apply Data and Learning, using evidence and shared expertise to inform action.

This month, Pauline Boscato presented her essay, The Math That Exposes Systemic Failure, which examines the stark overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in homelessness and housing deprivation. Drawing on data and mathematics, the presentation explored how systemic inequities are reflected in the numbers and challenged participants to consider how systems can be redesigned with Aboriginal people and allies at the centre.

Participants were encouraged to continue the conversation through the Pulse feedback process and reflect on how these insights can inform advocacy, policy development, service design, and decision-making. Meaningful change requires not only recognising the evidence but ensuring Aboriginal people hold genuine authority in shaping the systems intended to support them.

Knowledge Sharing Session

Addressing Strategic Driver 4: Apply Data and Learning and Strategic Driver 3: Coordinate Responses, the Knowledge Sharing Session showcased new research and practical insights to support a more coordinated sector response.

The University of Notre Dame’s Home2Health team presented findings from Under the Weather, the first Australian study of its kind to explore climate vulnerability through the experiences of people with lived and living experience of homelessness, alongside frontline services.

The research highlights the growing impact of extreme weather on people experiencing homelessness, identifies gaps in current responses, and shares practical examples of how WA services are supporting communities during periods of heat, cold, and severe weather. While WA has lagged behind some other states in policy and funding responses, the discussion highlighted a growing momentum across the sector to advocate for change.

The report is available at: https://www.home2health.org/weather

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