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The following article appeared in the May 2018 edition of Parity: Rough Sleeping Revisited by Nicholas Pleace, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York. Professor Pleace will be a keynote speaker at the National Homelessness Conference 2018, which will be held in Melbourne on 6-7 August.

With the second season of the SBS documentary series Filthy, Rich and Homeless set to air, The National Homelessness Conference 2018 will host an engaging session examining the media's portrayal of homelessness issues.

The National Homelessness Conference 2018 will open with a keynote address from Professor Marah Curtis, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A campaign called ‘The Home Stretch’, that aims to reduce homelessness by increasing the age young people can stay in foster care to 21, has been successful in South Australia and Tasmania (both have announced plans to extend care) and is now working towards the same reform in Victoria and NSW.

The Australian Government has published the details of the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement, which was created in the 2017-18 Australian Budget and comes into effect on 1 July 2018.