Description

Open House Melbourne presents Making Home, a series of talks and tours that helps public audiences better understand social and affordable housing.

Make Room will provide secure supportive housing for people experiencing rough sleeping or chronic homelessness in the City of Melbourne for up to 12 months or until they can secure access to long-term secure housing. The project is a groundbreaking partnership between the City of Melbourne and Unison Housing, the Victorian Government and the philanthropic and corporate sectors which addresses the critical needs of people experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness within our city.

One of the first of its kind, the project repurposes a City of Melbourne owned building into specialist supportive housing managed by community housing provider Unison Housing. Unison will partner with community health organisation cohealth and Aboriginal community-controlled organisation Ngwala Willumbong to provide wraparound health and social supports to prepare and transition people into longer-term sustainable housing.

What's On

Tour Make Room with representatives from Unison Housing, City of Melbourne, cohealth, i2C Architects and landscape architects Tract to hear about how this adaptive reuse project represents an innovative and collaborative approach to deliver successful supportive housing.

Making Home is presented by Open House Melbourne with the assistance of the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation. Find out more at lmcf.org.au.

In Collaboration With:

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  Unison Housing

  Unison is one of the largest providers of services for homeless people or those at risk of homelessness in Melbourne’s north and west. Unison connects people to safe and affordable short, medium or long-term housing combined with support to address any challenges that may have contributed to their fragile housing situation. In addition, Unison helps people re-establish and maintain a secure home.

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  City of Melbourne

  The City of Melbourne believes that Every Melburnian deserves a safe place to sleep every night. Recognising that the complexity and extent of the housing crisis needed a comprehensive, targeted response, we created Homes Melbourne in 2022 – a multi-disciplinary team committed to ending homelessness and increasing safe, secure, and affordable housing in our city. We are committed to helping to solve the affordable housing crisis and create pathways out of homelessness – at pace and scale.