According to the Sydney Morning Herald, street sleepers and victims of domestic violence in Sydney will receive additional funding to help them find places to call their homes, as part of the homelessness strategy of the new state of government, (Homelessness Strategy).
Sydney street sleepers will receive additional help from the new state of government in the next four years
The budget released next week will include an allocation of more than A $1 billion over the next four years to serve the homeless, said Perrot (Dominic Perrottet), the new state finance director, and Goward (Pru Goward), director of family, community services and social housing. Of this, A $61 million will be used to implement the Homelessness Strategy, to provide additional outreach services to street sleepers, to assess in detail the causes of homelessness among street sleepers, and to support street sleepers in renting their homes.
"the new funding will provide more than A $9 million for additional transitional housing and provide additional support programmes for street sleepers based on last year's budget investment," Mr. Perot said.
It is reported that over the next four years, existing projects will receive an annual funding of A $ two hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine, including the 24-hour Link2Home project, which will provide two nights of accommodation for street sleepers and introduce other services.
Figures released earlier this year in Sydney show that the number of people sleeping on the streets in Sydney has fallen by about 25%, compared with 329 so far. The decrease was attributed to increased support from government and charities.
Government will also inject A $20 million into social impact investment (SII) to address homelessness over the next four years and ensure that street sleepers "have a place to call a home," Mr. Perot said.