Consultation on draft NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025-2035

The NSW Government has been working with stakeholders to develop a new ten-year NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025-35.

The Strategy’s vision is to make NSW a place where homelessness is rare, brief and not repeated because people have a safe home and the support to keep it.

Flexible whole-of-government Action Plans will sit under the Strategy and set out how we will work to achieve this vision.

We have drafted the NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025 -2035 by building on what we all know and engaging with people over the past six months to explore issues and test ideas.

We want your ideas about how we can implement the Strategy’s principles and outcomes, and what we should focus on in the first action plan.

To guide this process, please review:

• The draft NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025-2034 (MS Word 1.9MB)
• The consultation paper: Draft NSW Homelessness Strategy Check-in November 2024 – February 2025 (MS Word 165kb)

We welcome:

• Responses to the questions in the consultation paper
• General comments

Please send your feedback by 14 February 2025 to homelessness.strategy@homes.nsw.gov.au

The following documents provide additional background and detail to the Strategy.

• Paper #1 - Towards System Change (PDF 0.3MB)
• Paper #2 - Housing First - Options and considerations for NSW (MS Word 0.8MB)
• Fact Sheet #1 – Respecting the Diversity of Homeless Experiences (MS Word 0.5MB)
• Fact Sheet #2 – Why is Change Needed? (MS Word 1MB)
• Fact Sheet #3 – Evidence Summary (MS Word 0.6MB)

Through November and December 2024, we will continue to use existing forums to talk directly with stakeholders and our lived experience advisory groups as we develop the standalone Action Plans for Aboriginal people, and children and young people.

We will consider all feedback, and the final Strategy and Action Plans will be released in 2025.