As architects, we can play a crucial role in addressing homelessness in our communities.
By collaborating with social housing providers and incorporating their expertise and insights into our design process, we can help to create housing solutions that are not only functional and sustainable, but also support the health, wellbeing, and overall quality of life of those who live in them, as well as the surrounding community.
A key criterion to ending homelessness is changing the perceptions around affordable housing, and that design is a way to achieve this through creating enriched and desirable community assets.
Through the Melbourne Zero initiative, we can help to end homelessness in Melbourne and build a more inclusive and liveable city for all.