Homelessness doesn’t discriminate. But the forces that push women into homelessness are deeply gendered and shaped by lifelong inequalities. For decades, researchers and frontline workers have warned us that women’s homelessness was increasing. They predicted this surge and now it’s here.
Frontline homelessness workers are used to carrying complexity. They navigate trauma, housing instability, family violence, mental health crises and deep financial distress every day.
Our End of Year appeal was generously supported by our giving community allowing 20 smaller, grassroots organisations to scale up their prevention programs to intervene early and stop homelessness before it starts.
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.
Frontline workers are there when someone reaches out for help. Answering phones. Opening doorways. Listening, assessing, advocating and supporting. And they’re doing this work under increasingly impossible conditions.
This giving season, join us in preventing homelessness and the trauma it causes, for those at the tipping point of being without a safe place to call home.
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.
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.
StreetSmart is an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming workplace that values diversity of expression. We know that members of the LGBTQIA+ community are particularly vulnerable to experiencing homelessness and we partner with organisations that work to support people in need, without discrimination or prejudice.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which our organisation is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. StreetSmart is committed to honouring Indigenous peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society.
StreetSmart is an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming workplace that values diversity of expression. We know that members of the LGBTQIA+ community are particularly vulnerable to experiencing homelessness and we partner with organisations that work to support people in need, without discrimination or prejudice.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which our organisation is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. StreetSmart is committed to honouring Indigenous peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society.
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