After 23 years, hundreds of restaurants and millions of $2 donations, StreetSmart Australia has announced that 2025 will mark the final DineSmart campaign in its current form – DineSmart: The Last Service.
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Housing prevents and ends homelessness and that’s why we’ve focused on funding 17 grassroots organisations across Australia to deliver housing outcomes for those facing homelessness.
Everyone should have a fair go, but the impacts of poverty are pushing people into homelessness, hunger, and economic and social disadvantage. Poverty limits the choices and capacity to secure a job, find a stable home, and gain empowerment…and it’s a growing pressure on millions of Australians.
Housing ends homelessness. It’s a fundamental human right and the foundation of a happy, stable, and productive life. Yet right now, thousands are struggling to even get a foot in the door, turned away from services and facing a never-ending cycle of homelessness.
Last December, restaurants and diners across the country partnered up with our DineSmart campaign to support people experiencing homelessness on their journey towards a place to call home.
Faced with increasing rents, a chronic lack of affordable housing, and income support below the poverty line, vulnerable people are up against systemic barriers that limit their access to safe affordable housing. Through our End of Year Appeal, we rallied our community to raise funds and awareness for young people, those with pets, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The number of women and girls becoming homeless is growing. Often facing impossible decisions between homelessness or violence and poverty, women and gender diverse people increasingly have nowhere safe to turn.
Sleeping rough on the streets, in cars or tents is increasingly the only option left for thousands of people in Australia. Families are sleeping in cold, damp tents and people are spending years living on streets. This type of homelessness is dangerous, traumatic, and often life-threatening. But it is also solvable.
The reality is that there are very few real options for ‘youth safe’ housing in Australia and young people face uncertainty and danger when sleeping rough, in adult rooming houses and couch surfing. We’ve just distributed over $109,000 to support young people into safe housing.
Living in your car, on the street or in a makeshift camp site is dangerous and difficult. But it’s even more of a challenge through winter. Join us in Spreading the warmth this winter by helping provide warm safe housing, warm nutritious food, warm clothing and material aid.
