QCOSS recently prepared a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Economics responding to their Inquiry into the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024.

QCOSS supports all measures in the Bill designed to improve governance and accountability mechanisms for national housing policy, and to set out an on-going Australian Government requirement to develop and implement a National Housing and Homelessness Plan (NHHP) using a human rights-based approach to housing across Australia.

QCOSS also recommends the Bill be amended to ensure young people, as well as people experiencing domestic and family violence are engaged in planning and implementation of the NHHP as these discrete groups are more likely to require housing and homelessness support than the general population.