What We Do

The housing crisis on our doorstep

Homelessness and housing insecurity persists in Augusta-Margaret River (AMR), with no signs yet that these issues are easing. Like the rest of WA, Australia and the world, the housing crisis in our community has been developing and worsening for a long time. There is still not enough meaningful investment and intervention from all levels of government to ensure that everyone has a home in our community.

Sadly, with the closure of our Housing Information and Referral Service, we have no longer been able together statistics on the breadth of the housing and homelessness crisis in AMR. We have spent a significant part of 2025 planning to address this lack through a major project in February 2026: Connections Week, which will bring local agencies, government, businesses and individuals to use a nationally recognised survey tool to get a data snapshot of the state of homelessness in AMR. Our intention is to use the momentum from this process to advocate for a more urgent response to fixing service and housing gaps in our community.