Housing Australia notes the Australian Government's updated Investment Mandate for Housing Australia on 2 December 2024. This comprises amendments to commit $1 billion in allocated funding to the National Housing Infrastructure Facility enabling Housing Australia to provide grants and concessional loans to support the delivery of crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children experiencing domestic violence, and youth experiencing homelessness.

Further information will be provided as the program progresses towards commencement.

Housing Australia has funded its first temporary accommodation project, helping to address the critical need for secure and safe short-term accommodation for those at risk, or facing, homelessness in Metropolitan Sydney. 

Housing Australia today opened the Call for Applications for State and Territory Governments to participate in Funding Round Two of the Federal Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund Facility (HAFFF) to expedite the delivery of more well-located social housing. 

Housing Australia today published its program guidance to prepare the industry on a new National Housing Infrastructure Facility (NHIF) program designed to increase the supply of crisis and transitional housing for women and children experiencing domestic violence, and youth experiencing homelessness, across Australia.