Local Government Resources

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Integrated and strategic planning are a requirement for all local governments.  Strategic and integrated planning provides local governments with a framework for establishing their local priorities. Establishing priorities ensures operational planning and resources are considered and implemented to meet the communities needs and expectations.

Integrating planning of assets, services and financial and human resources allows a local government’s resource to be matched with delivering on community need.

Strategic and integrated planning is a key a driver for all other planning in a local government, including social or regulatory plans. These planning processes can be harnessed to inform each Council’s approach to end homelessness in their community.

This planning approach could include provisions in social plan’s such as Community Development or Community Safety plans to contribute set the framework and approach to end homelessness. Urban and town planning strategies which ensure appropriate planning controls exist for land use and development by preparing local planning schemes and strategies, can use these instruments to which address issues such as lack of social and affordable housing, crisis accommodation or diverse housing supply, and Public Health Plans which outlines determinates and strategies for residents to live a healthy life, this can include being part of a vulnerable group such as people experiencing homelessness.  Other local governments commit to a more direct approach to ending homelessness through the development of  homelessness policies, strategies or  plans.

This section of the hub features state-wide examples of how local government have responded to preventing and ending homelessness through plans and strategies across the different functional areas of local government.