This week, 4-10 August 2025, is Homelessness Week, hosted annually by Homelessness Australia to build community support and government commitment to end homelessness.
In recognition of this week QUT Centre for Justice is highlighting some key initiatives currently taking place in this area:
LADY MUSGRAVE TRUST 17TH ANNUAL WOMEN AND HOMELESSNESS FORUM
On Thursday 7 August 2025 QUT Centre for Justice is sponsoring The Lady Musgrave Trust 17th Annual Forum on Women and Homelessness with the theme, “All Ladders, No Snakes – Transforming intergenerational disadvantage into multi-generational opportunity”. This event will bring together women with lived experience, sector leaders, front line workers, researchers and policymakers to spark meaningful dialogue and drive lasting change.
This year’s theme, “All ladders, no snakes,” is a call to action to dismantle the systemic barriers that hold women and children back, and build ladders of opportunity that lead to long-term stability, independence and hope.
Read more about the event here
QUT CENTRE FOR JUSTICE BRIEFING PAPER SERIES
At this event QUT Centre for Justice will release a Briefing Papers Series on Housing and Homelessness.
Briefing Papers are short (2000 word) accounts of topics and issues related to justice. They can be authored by researchers (Researcher Papers) or by practitioners (Practitioner Papers).
Topics covered in the series include:
- Funding with purpose: Strategic models for not-for-profit organisations responding to domestic and family violence in South East Queensland
- Climate change, housing and human rights
- Beyond shelter: Integrating mental health support in temporary supported accommodation
- Let’s not forget the support! The critical role of support services in contemporary housing and homelessness policy and practice
- Achieving the National Housing Accord: Do we have a chance?
- Tailoring youth homelessness responses to domestic, family and sexual violence (Brisbane Youth Service)
- Homelessness and Olympic legacy – The good, the bad and the ugly
- Accommodation challenges for preservice teachers in rural, regional and remote placements: A simultaneous crisis
- Help not just a hotel room: Logan’s immediate response to homelessness (YFS Ltd)
- Beyond the roof: the role of onsite support in tenant success (The Y Queensland)
These papers will be released at the Lady Musgrave event on Thursday 7 August 2025 and can be found here (most papers will not be available here until 7 August 2025)
QUT CENTRE FOR JUSTICE HOUSING SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP
QUT Centre for Justice does extensive research in the area of Housing and Homelessness through the QUT Centre for Justice Housing Security Research Group.
The housing crisis is an international real-world problem that urgently needs transformative research to inform policy makers and drive change. In Australia, housing affordability is at its worst level on record (National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, 2024). The establishment of a Housing Security Research Group aims to establish QUT as a leading housing research institution and deliver impactful evidence-based research to inform and guide housing policy.
Within the lens of housing as a basic human right, the Housing Security Research Group focuses on finding solutions to social injustice, regardless of social status or geo-political spatial location in a globalised world.
Read more about QUT Housing Security Research Group here.
AUSTRALASIAN HOUSING RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE 2026 (AHRC26)
In February 2026 QUT will host the Australasian Housing Researchers Conference in Brisbane with the theme, Housing Justice in Turbulent Times. Keep up to date with what’s happening here.
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