Between 340,000 and 440,000 people in Australia will experience homelessness over a given twelve-month period. Although the Australian government understands homelessness to be a preventable social problem and has set an ambitious goal to cut homelessness in half by 2020, current interventions mirror those that are in place in the UK and the US, which focus mainly on addressing the problem at the individual level, without regard for the root causes of homelessness.