National Homelessness Conference: June, 2025

In June this year, Street Up, attended the National Homelessness Conference on the Gold Coast. Highlights included learning about Housing First, presenting on embedding lived experience and the invitation to provide Closing Reflections. Key takeaways are reflected in this poem, written collectively as a way to reflect on the experience. 

Holding people in power to account

'Don’t trust the minister'

So what now.....?

Invitation to Street Up to give reflections

Weaving social connection into solutions

Alternatives, empowering, supportive

Holding community conversations

Proposing Housing First project for Nambour

Is it possible?

Street Up thanks Mission Australia and Sunshine Coast Council for support to attend the conference, and Homelessness Australia for the invitation to give closing reflections of the Conference from a lived experience perspective.