Specialist Homelessness Program - Housing Mobile Service

Mobile Support services are provided for young people aged between 16 - 25 years and delivered in accordance with the Homelessness Program Guidelines Specifications and Requirements

Housing Mobile Service - funded by Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy

Mobile Support Services provide case management support to people living in one or more of the following locations:

'In their own home' which includes private rental, social housing, boarding houses or in share houses.
'In temporary living situations' including any temporary accommodation setting for example motels or living with family/friends.
'Community setting' which includes places where services meet with people they support, for example local library, coffee shop, recreation centre, neighbourhood centre.
'Public space' where people are sleeping rough, including parks, streets and improvised dwellings and support to this group takes a housing first approach

Mobile support is also provided to people in another provider's centre based location.

Homelessness Brokerage Funds are available to clients to access and maintain accommodation.

Goals

To transition a client from homelessness to being housed
To apply early intervention approaches to prevent young people from losing at risk tenancies
To support young people to sustain and maintain a tenancy and prevent the tenancy from becoming at risk

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Same House Different Landlord

Same House, Different Landlord Under the Same House Different Landlord program, the Queensland Government leases public housing properties to community organisations (providers), which rent the properties to tenants who need support to establish and manage a tenancy. The tenancy and the property are transferred back to the government once the tenant can manage a longer-term tenancy, and they then become a public housing tenant without needing to move.
Tenant Information Booklet

Youth Link provides a printed copy of the Tenant information booklet to all young people who move into crisis accommodation placements, transitional accommodation, and Same House Different Landlord Leases to assist young people to understand their accommodation and make the most out of their housing placements and support opportunities.
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Youth Link provides a printed copy of the Tenant information booklet to all young people who move into crisis accommodation placements, transitional accommodation, and Same House Different Landlord Leases to assist young people to understand their accommodation and make the most out of their housing placements and support opportunities. Read more