A homelessness dashboard for Western Australia

Are we on track to end homelessness in Australia?

The Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (WAAEH) is an independent coalition of individuals and organisations committed to working together to end homelessness in Western Australia.

As a founding member of the WAAEH, The Centre for Social Impact at The University of Western Australia (CSI UWA) have developed an evolving, accessible and visual dashboard which presents and reports on outcomes relevant to the goal of ending homelessness in Western Australia.

Taking a systems approach to measuring progress, the dashboard is made up of the following sections and provides rich insights into:

  1. Trends in homelessness in Western Australia
  2. Preventing homelessness in Western Australia
  3. The funding of homelessness and housing in Western Australia
  4. The Zero Project
Screenshot of the Homelessness Dashboard
The homelessness dashboard for WAAEH

Homelessness data in Western Australia

The dashboard brings together multiple sources of publicly available data to provide accessible reporting that can be understood and used by sector agencies, government, peak bodies and the broader community.

The three data sources used to present trends in homelessness are:

  1. A service-based measure of homelessness and risk of homelessness using information from the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC) of government-funded Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS).
  2. The Australian Census which collects information on six operational groups including people sleeping rough, living in supported accommodation or boarding houses, staying temporarily with other households or other temporary lodgings, as well as people living in ‘severely’ crowded dwellings.
  3. The Zero Project by-name list which is powerful tool for providing ‘live’ data on who is experiencing homelessness in a community where each person is known by their name.

A broad array of data sources are used to display the drivers of homelessness, while data for the funding of homelessness services and social housing is derived from the Report on Government Services 2024.

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