The Charlestown electorate is set to benefit from a funding boost to support our community’s most vulnerable thanks to the Minns Labor Government’s new Homelessness Innovation Fund.
Pacific Link Housing Limited has received $505,902 in funding to provide supported transitional accommodation to women over 55 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women over 45 who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness under the ‘Mount Hutton Meanwhile Use’ program.
Announced at the 2024/25 NSW Budget, the Homelessness Innovation Fund is providingmore than $16.6 million in funding for partner organisations with innovative solutions and a strong track record of supporting people facing homelessness.
In less than a year, the game-changing program has already provided funding for 42 innovative projects, adding 504 additional beds for rough sleepers in New South Wales.
Of the more than 40 successful projects so far, eight are either Aboriginal-led or providing targeted support for Aboriginal people, ten are designed to support victim-survivors of domestic and family violence and six are specifically for women at risk of homelessness.
These latest investments are timely with the 2025 Street Count data revealing an 8 per cent uptick in rough sleepers across New South Wales.
The Homelessness Innovation Fund is a core part of the historic $6.6 billion Building Homes for NSW program, the state’s largest ever investment in public housing and homelessness services.
More than $80 million remains available over the next three years, and we encourage accredited housing providers and homelessness services to apply.
For more information about the Fund, go to: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/housing/homelessness-innovation-fund.html
Hon Jodie Harrison MP, Member for Charlestown:
“This “meanwhile use” project is part of the Minns Labor Government’s work to deliver innovative and practical solutions to improve homelessness support for our community’s most vulnerable.
“With increases in the number of people sleeping rough across our state, we’re making sure community housing providers are getting more support to drive innovation and reform, ensuring more people have a safe roof over their heads at one of the most difficult times in their lives.”
Hon Rose Jackson MLC, Minister for Housing and Homelessness:
“I am so proud of what we’ve achieved in just the past 10 months with the game-changing Homelessness Innovation Fund which was created in direct response to the calls from the sector as well as people with lived experience of homelessness.
“Many of the projects which have received funding so far have already transformed outcomes for vulnerable people in our communities and there are so many more benefits to come as we continue roll out this program.”