Neami was pleased to contribute a submission to the Senate inquiry on social housing.
Our submission explains that housing is fundamental to our wellbeing, and housing insecurity and homelessness is a powerful social determinant of mental health challenges and suicidal distress.
We call for a Housing First approach to underpin Australia’s homelessness response alongside greater investment in well located and well-maintained social housing, better responses to mental health challenges within social housing, greater lived experience leadership, and recognition of housing as a human right.
‘I hope to have adequate housing and a liveable income one day so I can have what other people have…. a life worth living. And the ability to have something stable and reliable that can help me focus on my recovery.’ – Respondent to the Because You Matter survey, 2026