Just Home Margaret River Inc. is a community organisation based in Margaret River. We are a dynamic collective led by people with lived experience of homelessness and their allies.
Our goal is that everyone has access to appropriate, accessible, low cost, secure and sustainable housing or shelter.
Our vision is to live in a community where secure, stable shelter is accessible for everyone.
Our mission is to promote and facilitate appropriate secure and sustainable housing and shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
We Need Help With Funding & Volunteering!
We are not a government organization and we need your help and involvement to stay running. Monetary donations and volunteers are what keep us going!
Our 3 key areas of ACTION
Advocacy and activism: Just Home participates in advocacy and activism for policy reforms at local, state and federal government levels to ensure that everyone has secure shelter.
Social housing: Just Home is working with the local government, state government, community housing providers and private firms to help facilitate the development of social housing in our community.
Community engagement and awareness: Just Home supports people experiencing homelessness to connect with each other in community, with events, activities, and peer support groups.
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AMR Community Action Plan for Housing Justice
Community members experiencing homelessness developed Just Home’s 10-Year Community Action Plan for Housing Justice to address and prevent homelessness and housing stress in AMR.
Our strategies for Housing Justice are:
- Strengthening support services, including increasing access to information, referrals and services in AMR and the South West, and peer support programs.
- Facilitating the development of diverse low-cost housing through State government, community housing and private housing partnerships.
- Mobilising a people’s movement to demand housing justice.
Housing Advocacy
Just Home engages in advocacy for strong policy responses to homelessness and unaffordability of housing in Augusta-Margaret River. We helped inform the Shire of Augusta Margaret River Affordable Housing Strategy, and the Homelessness and Crisis Accommodation Policy. We regularly communicate with local, state and federal governments about homelessness in our community.
Developing Low-Cost Housing in AMR
Just Home is facilitating the development of low-cost housing in Augusta-Margaret River. We are working with local organisations to explore opportunities such as a community-owned caravan park, a low-cost eco-village, affordable and sustainable units, tiny houses and other creative options.
If you are interested in joining us to find innovative housing solutions in AMR, please contact office@justhome.org.au
Homelessness and Affordable Housing Working Group
Just Home is a key member of the Shire of Augusta Margaret River’s Homelessness and Affordable Housing Working Group. This Working Group meets quarterly to progress local actions to address homelessness. We are strongly focussed on opportunities to develop social housing in Augusta Margaret River.
Just Home Research
Just Home supports people experiencing homelessness to conduct Participatory Action Research to document local experiences of homelessness and use this evidence to demand action. We have produced several public reports since our formation in 2015:
(Click to view in browser or right click to download as PDF)
Community Conversation About Homelessness and Unaffordable Housing 2015
Community Consultation Report 2016
First Year Review of Housing Advocacy Project 2018
I wouldn’t wish this on anyone: The Augusta Margaret River housing crisis
Housing Support Service (as HAP and HIRS) between 2017 to 2024
Operating a Housing Support Service for over 7 years (closed in July 2024), Just Home had a part-time staff working with community members experiencing homelessness or housing stress to access housing. The Program Facilitator provided:
- Support to access and maintain public and private housing
- Support with public housing applications and applying for bond assistance
- Information and referrals to other services in the region
The HIRS has been supported by the following generous donors:
- The Ian Potter Foundation
- Shire of Augusta Margaret River
- Lottery West
- Margaret River Soup Kitchen
- Rotary Club of Margaret River
- Margaret River Lions Club
- Street Smart
- Sustainable Settlements Pty Ltd