Yfoundations views the NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025–2035 (the Strategy) and the NSW Government’s commitment to develop and implement a NSW Child and Youth Homelessness and Housing Action Plan (the Action Plan) under the Strategy as a once in a generation opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact on child and youth homelessness in this state, such that child and youth homelessness can be rare, brief and not repeated.

Unaccompanied children and young people are a significant group experiencing homelessness across NSW. They require prioritisation and targeted increased investment in the NSW Homelessness Strategy if we are to significantly address the systemic, economic and social drivers of child and youth homelessness and reduce the numbers of children and young people cycling into and through homelessness.