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Specialist Homelessness Services data collection. For clients of Specialist Homelessness Services repeat homelessness is the number of specialist homelessness service clients who change status from ‘homeless’ to ‘not homeless’ and back to ‘homeless’ in the reporting period, divided by the number of clients who experienced homelessness at any time in the reporting period.

Clients of specialist homelessness services are defined as being homeless in each month where at least one of the following describes their housing situation:

• dwelling type is caravan, tent, cabin, boat, improvised building/dwelling, no dwelling/street/park/in the open, motor vehicle, boarding/rooming house, emergency accommodation, hotel/motel/bed and breakfast

• tenure type is renting or living rent free in transitional housing, caravan park, boarding/rooming house or emergency accommodation/night shelter/women’s refuge/youth shelter; or if the client has no tenure

• conditions of occupancy is a couch surfer.

Figures for 2019-20, which are supplied by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and provided to the Report on Government Services, will become available in January 2021. The methodology for calculating this indicator was revised in 2017. Data was back cast to 2012-13. Results for years earlier than 2012-13 are not compatible.

Table 2. Number and percentage of specialist homelessness services clients who were homeless in the ACT who had repeat periods of homelessness, 2014-15 to 2018-19.

Number

Per cent

2012-13

200

5.6%

2013-14

180

5.2%

2014-15

201

6.2%

2015-16

210

6.8%

2016-17

230

7.8%

2017-18

180

7.0%

2018-19

141

5.8%

Source: Report on Government Services 2020

4. The cost per day of homelessness support in the ACT is provided in Table 3. Figures for 2019-20, which are supplied by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and provided to the Report on Government Services, will become available in January 2021.

The financial data in Table 3 is adjusted to 2018-19 dollars (to enable comparison across years with the effects of inflation removed). This adjusted data is available from 2014-15 only.

Table 3. Recurrent cost per day of support for clients of specialist homelessness services in the ACT, 2014-15 to 2018-19.

(Data available at the Chamber Support Office).

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