Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness Dashboard

The Western Australian Alliance Strategy to End Homelessness Dashboard is an evolving, accessible, and visual platform designed to present and report on outcomes relevant to the key targets of the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (WAAEH). The Dashboard aims to answer the following question: Are we are ‘on track’ to end homelessness in Western Australia?

The WAAEH acknowledges the assistance of Western Australian homelessness agencies in preparing the Dashboard. The WAAEH wishes to acknowledge the funding to the WAEEH provided by the Sisters of St John of God Ministries without which the WAAEH Dashboard would not have been possible.

For detailed breakdowns, sources, and more accurate graphs please click on each graphic.

A key target of the WAAEH is to halve the overall rate of homelessness by 2028 from its original 2018 level. Homelessness in Western Australia remains persistently high regardless of the source of data used - the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) collection, the Census data, and the Zero Project data.

Yearly Specialist Homelessness Service (SHS) data
AIHW 2023 Specialist Homelessness Services: yearly data. Latest: 2023.

Reducing the rate of homelessness in WA
AIHW 2023 Specialist Homelessness Services: yearly data. Latest: 2023.

Monthly Specialist Homelessness Service (SHS) data
AIHW 2023 Specialist Homelessness Services: monthly data. Latest: September, 2023.

Zero Project Outcomes

ABS Census Homelessness data 2021
ABS Estimating Homelessness: Census, 2021

The WAAEH has a target ending all forms of chronic homelessness including chronic rough sleeping, eliminating the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in homelessness and ensuring the needs of those experiencing homelessness are met. Long-term homelessness remains a feature of WA homelessness and Aboriginal homelessness remains high.

Trends in homelessness in WA
Ending chronic homelessness in WA Reducing Aboriginal homelessness Addressing the needs of those experiencing homelessness	Reducing the rate of homelessness in WA Reducing regional homelessness

Increasing funding of WA's homelessness services and of social housing are important objectives of the WAAEH. Real per capita funding of homelessness services has risen in WA in recent years as has investment in social housing after a period of relative stagnation.

Funding of homelessness services
Western Australian Goverment expenditure	State and Territory Government expenditure

Western Australian government funding of homelessness services

State and Territory funding of homelessness services, 2021-22

A target of the WAAEH is that the underlying causes that result in people becoming homeless have been met head-on, resulting in a reduction in the inflow of people and families into homelessness in any one year. Across a broad range of indicators other than unemployment where WA has experienced relatively low levels in recent years, the underlying drivers of homelessness remain strong particularly in terms of housing market stress.

Preventing homelessness in WA
Housing affordability and supply in WA Young people in custody and out of home care Alcohol and drug use	Poverty and unemployment in WA Physical and mental health Domestic violence