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What is the Melbourne Zero campaign?

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The Melbourne Zero campaign is an empathy-led campaign of engaged Melburnians from across our city, calling to recognise the humanity of people experiencing homelessness — and to get to know them by-name. 

We're calling for a human-centred solution to a systemic problem.  

That means implementing By-Name Lists across all Melbourne councils, and working toward achieving functional zero homelessness, and a future Melbourne where all occurrences of homelessness are rare, brief, and non-recurring.