National Shelter, CHIA, and Homelessness Australia recently held an event with sector colleagues to hear about the scope and ambition needed in the Plan and the major policy reforms that are needed to address the housing crisis and to end homelessness.

Here is further information following the session:

• The recording of the session can be found here. 
• The slides from the presenters can be found here. This also includes a copy of a paper from Parsell, Petersen and Culhane on ‘Cost Offsets of Supportive Housing’. 
• Cameron Parsell mentioned Sky Constantine during his presentation. Sky’s work on consumer participation can be found here. 
• The AHURI report mentioned by Dr Chris Martin is here, and a shorter paper from The Conversation here. 
• You may be interested in an article from The Conversation by David McKenzie and Tammy Hand on what a national plan should do to reduce youth homelessness. 
• Cameron Parsell mentioned that he has book out soon which digs deeper into the elements of his presentation. You can pre-order his book here. 

We encourage you to utilise the presentations and their associated reports to inform your submission to the national plan. 

Keep an eye on the the schedule of formal consultation for any changes and new sessions. Homelessness Australia has a number of events scheduled to complement the formal consultations by DSS. You can find out more here. CHIA and National Shelter are working on a joint submission, and will be having additional sessions as well. More information to come.