The Victorian government is being urged by a peak homelessness group to restore funding to a “life-changing” program to permanently end rough sleeping, with planned cuts leaving hundreds in limbo.
The Council to Homeless Persons’ state budget submission, released on Tuesday, calls on the government to spend $47.5m in the next financial year to extend the Homelessness to a Home (H2H) program beyond its 30 June end date and a further $224.4m to expand the program to 2,400 households over four years.
