ADVOCACY
Driving System Change to Prevent and End Homelessness
Homelessness Queensland advocates for a shift toward a more integrated, outcomes-focused system — one that prioritises prevention, reduces duplication, and delivers meaningful, lasting change in people’s lives.
Advocacy Focus
Our advocacy is centred on six interconnected areas that we believe are essential to preventing and ending homelessness in Queensland.
Prevention and Early Intervention
Shifting investment and practice upstream to stop homelessness before it occurs, through cross-system risk identification and early response.
Integration Across Systems
Building stronger connections between housing, health, justice, and community services to deliver coordinated, person-centred responses.
Regional and Place-Based Governance
Strengthening local decision-making and regional coordination to ensure responses reflect community needs and context.
Outcomes-Focused System Design
Moving from output-based reporting to outcomes-based frameworks that measure what actually changes in people’s lives.
Lived Experience Leadership
Embedding formal mechanisms for people with lived experience to shape policy, practice, and system design at every level.
Workforce Capability and Support
Investing in the skills, wellbeing, and development of the specialist homelessness workforce across Queensland.
What We’re Calling For
Concrete shifts we believe are needed to create a more effective, prevention-focused homelessness system.
A Clear Shift to Prevention
Integrated System Design Across Portfolios
Transition to Outcomes-Based Reporting Environments
Formal Mechanisms for Lived Experience Leadership
Alignment and Progression of Existing Sector Work
Strengthened Regional and Place-Based Governance
Submissions archive coming soon.
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Our Approach
How we do advocacy matters as much as what we advocate for.How we do advocacy matters as much as what we advocate for.
Collaborative
We work alongside government, services, and communities — building shared agendas rather than working in opposition.
Evidence-informed
Our positions are grounded in research, data, and sector expertise — ensuring our advocacy is credible and actionable.
Lived experience-led
We centre the voices of people with direct experience of homelessness in every aspect of our advocacy.
Solutions-focused
We don’t just identify problems — we propose practical, evidence-based pathways forward.
“Because homes need people, and people need support — and both must be delivered together through a system that works.”
– Homelessness Queensland
Want to make a difference?
Whether you’re an individual, an organisation, or a service provider — there are many ways to support our advocacy work and help end homelessness in Queensland.