The aim of this review is to synthesise issues and models of practice around the nexus between mental health, housing and homelessness. The context for this review is to better understand how issues of mental health, housing and homelessness might be more sustainably overcome throughout the Brisbane Local Government Area (LGA) from a review of practices employed here and elsewhere.

This review brings together evidence based and best practice models that intercede this area. This review addresses two research questions. The first question is: what are the unmet needs of the target population? Evidence of the unmet needs will be shown by drawing on a general review of the nexus between mental illness, housing and homelessness and through data of the issue in the Brisbane LGA. The second question to be addressed is: what are the solutions or models to deal with the identified unmet needs of the target population group? In this second question, these solutions and models will be critiqued to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Before these questions are answered the following section provides an overview of the relationship and links between mental health, housing and homelessness.