Juno with the Women’s Housing Alliance has worked alongside Lived Experience Advisers, sector experts and government partners to co-design the Housing Safety Project, a groundbreaking early intervention model designed to fill a critical gap in Victoria’s homelessness system.
The Housing Safety Project is a gender-informed housing initiative that supports women, trans and gender diverse people, and their children who are at immediate risk of gendered homelessness. It will help people living in unsafe and unsustainable housing to establish housing security and prevent housing crisis. The key to this response is providing a person-centred, inclusive and safety focused approach that is practical and easy to access.
How the Housing Safety Model Was Created
We listened to women, trans and gender diverse people across Victoria about what it was like to receive help from Victoria’s homelessness system. They brought a wide range of experiences such as criminalisation, visa status, disability, race, age, gender identity, sexuality and income. Their insights shaped an early intervention Housing Safety model that applies a gendered focus, providing an urgently needed remedy to the dual challenges of homelessness and gendered violence.
Visit the Women’s Housing Alliance Website to explore the co-design process and the model →
The Women’s Housing Alliance has been able to undertake this critical work with thanks to philanthropic grants from the Phyllis Connor Memorial Trust managed by Equity Trustees and the Baker Foundation.
