The Albanese Labor Government is delivering safe, secure homes for women and children escaping family and domestic violence.

Minister for Housing and Homelessness Clare O’Neil and Minister Social Services Tanya Plibersek today announced that more than 22,000 women and children will have access to housing when they need it with $308 million supporting 448 new homes.

This funding from the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is dedicated to projects that deliver crisis and transitional housing and form part of Labor’s ambitious commitment to delivering over $1.2 billion in crisis and transitional housing investment and 55,000 social and affordable homes across the country.

Labor’s is ramping up to deliver housing at scale with construction starting on thirty new homes in Yarralumla with one, two and three‑bedroom units on the site of the former Minimbah Court public housing complex.

These are part of the 7,200 social and affordable homes the Albanese Labor Government has delivered since coming to office with another 23,000 homes in planning or construction.

Family and domestic violence is the main reason women and children leave their homes and become homeless in Australia. Ensuring they have somewhere safe to go, when they need it is critical.

This support will back several types of new housing that is connected to support services so that those escaping violence have a place to heal, regain independence and reconnect with their communities.

The projects will be delivered by community housing providers, state governments and First Nations organisations in partnership with Housing Australia.

In the Australian Capital Territory $16.8 million is delivering 19 homes across five projects.

Across Australia it will support:

• New South Wales: $139.1 million delivering 202 homes across 22 projects
• Victoria: $75.4 million delivering 113 homes across 24 projects
• Tasmania: $15.7 million delivering 37 homes across 15 projects
• Queensland: $14.5 million delivering 24 homes across five projects
• Western Australia: $22 million delivering 20 homes across three projects
• South Australia: $12.6 million delivering 18 homes across three projects
• The Northern Territory: $12 million delivering 15 homes across two projects

The Government is also backing reforms to tackle homelessness across Australia, including through:

• $275 million through the Safe Places Emergency Accommodation Program and the Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program to support housing for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence.
• $9.3 billion to states and territories under the National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness, including $400 million per year in dedicated homelessness funding that states must match.

As at 12 August 2026