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About Women’s Housing Alliance

The Victorian Women’s Housing Alliance (WHA) was established in 2019 to address the housing crisis and systemic barriers faced by women and children fleeing family violence. 

Our members are leading organisations across the family violence, homelessness, and housing sectors. Together we bring expertise in providing safe, sustainable housing (both transitional and social), alongside specialist family violence and homelessness support, and a range of allied services. 

The WHA is committed to driving systemic change and advocating for effective solutions to homelessness for women, trans and gender diverse people and their families. 

Our Purpose

To harness our collective voice and expertise to drive systemic change and advocate for a gendered lens to ending homelessness and housing insecurity for all women, trans and gender diverse people and their families.

 

 

Our Vision

All women, trans and gender diverse people and their families have safe, secure and affordable housing.

Our Strategy

We work with partners across sectors to push for change, influence decision-makers, and promote safe, secure and affordable housing for women, trans and gender diverse people and their families. 

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Our Members

The WHA is comprised of the following:
Georgina Martina

What We Do

We drive collaborative advocacy, listen to the voices of lived experience and promote housing solutions across Victoria. Our members deliver frontline services designed for women, trans and gender diverse people and their children — WHA unites their expertise to shift the system. 

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Lived Experience Leadership

Designing housing solutions and homelessness responses that truly work for women, trans and gender diverse people and their families can only be achieved when we work with those with lived experiences of these issues.

The WHA is committed to listening to and and acting on the expertise of women, trans and gender diverse people who have experienced homelessness and housing insecurity. By elevating their leadership and influence, we ensure that the solutions we develop are safe, effective and meaningful.

Through our Housing Safety Project, we have embedded the perspectives and participation of women, trans and gender diverse people with lived experience, along with those with practice expertise, to drive homelessness responses that are more equitable, just and fit-for-purpose.

Building on this, WHA is committed to creating formal structures that embed lived experience leadership within the Alliance (Strategic Goal 3: Establish Lived Experience Representation and/or Advisory Group for the Alliance).

“We are not asking just to be heard. We are asking to be included in designing solutions. When lived experience leads, safety returns, dignity is restored, and homelessness ends.” Housing Safety Lived Experience Adviser Group