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Brisbane Zero First Nations over 45 Cohort Strategy - achievements and learnings

In October 2022, more than 15 organisations working in the Brisbane Zero Service Coordination identified a gap in our housing outcomes for First Nations individuals aged 45 years old and over with a history of rough sleeping. We set out to end homelessness for this cohort in Brisbane by December 2023. First Nations people are over-represented on the Brisbane By-Name List and our strategy aims to align with outcomes identified through the Closing the Gap agreement. This Summary highlights the Strategy's achievements and learnings during 2023.

Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Triage Tool (AHVTT)

The Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Triage Tool (AHVTT) helps homelessness services match housing with the appropriate support for the most vulnerable people experiencing homelessness in their communities.

Brisbane Zero Vulnerability Snapshots - July 2024 to March 2025

Between July 2024 and March 2025, Brisbane Zero participating services have completed Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Triage Tool surveys with 353 individual adults and with 155 families with children. The data provides valuable information on people's needs, assists in triaging the most vulnerable in our communities, and helps us to advocate for systems changes.

Brisbane Zero Urgent Call for a SEQ Summit on Homelessness

Homelessness can no longer be ignored while we wait for Housing Plansto be realised. Rates of homelessness are on the rise, while a significant number of families and individuals are stuck in temporary accommodation like motels. Meanwhile, we’re seeing more tents in parks and more people living in their cars. We need to urgently come together for a South-East Qld Crisis Summit on Homelessness, focusing real solutions appropriate to the needs of individuals, families and communities.

Supportive Housing Toolkit - Micah Projects

Supportive Housing is a proven approach to addressing challenges homelessness creates for individuals, families and communities... and for service systems experiencing high utilisation of acute, institutional and tertiary settings. Supportive Housing requires a place-based approach. Micah Projects have developed this Supportive Housing Toolkit for organisations looking at advocating for and/or developing supportive housing projects to fill this important gap in the Queensland/Australian housing and service systems.

Queensland Government "Our Place" - closing the housing gap for First Nations peoples in Queensland by 2031

The Queensland Government have launched Our Place, an 8-year strategy and 4-year action plan to close the housing gap for First Nations peoples in Queensland. Ou Place was co-designed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Queensland, the peak body for First Nations Housing, and it will help shape a fairer housing system and contribute towards closing the housing gap for First Nations peoples in Queensland by 2031. Source: https://www.housing.qld.gov.au/initiatives/first-nations-housing-and-homelessness

Brisbane Zero 2023-24 Collaborative Snapshot

This factsheet summarizes data about individuals and families who are or have been sleeping rough—on the streets, in parks, tents, cars, and/or cycling in and out of motels and emergency accommodation and have engaged with participating Brisbane Zero services over the 2023-24 financial year. It also includes information disclosed by people who have been surveyed using the Vulnerability Index Service Prioritisation Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT). This screening tool helps to better understand their history of homelessness, housing, health, and support needs.

Unsheltered Data Collection Strategies: Case Studies - HUD Exchange

This document includes examples of unsheltered data collection strategies from four communities - representing diverse populations, different engagement strategies, and a mix of Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) and non-HMIS data collection practices - to help people experiencing unsheltered homelessness access housing and services in their community.

A Contribution to the Development of a Supportive Housing Policy for Queensland

A proven approach to addressing the challenges that homelessness creates for individuals, families, and communities... and for service systems experiencing high utilisation of acute, institutional, and tertiary settings.

Advance to Zero Brisbane + Logan - Year Two Learning Report

Since early 2022, the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation has collaborated with Brisbane Zero as a learning partner and evaluator. After two years of qualitative research, our mid-point review demonstrates that integrating data, collective analysis, service coordination, and transforming narratives into action has led to positive housing outcomes amidst a housing crisis.