The approach, the exit into a rental, crisis housing and what is measured — five parties, from platforms, releases and funding agreements, with the check date on the table. The Sovereign Australia column restates the published policy: Housing First funded in every major city and regional centre, a Commonwealth bond guarantee for people exiting homelessness, and healing towns for the most complex cases.
Checked 27 August 2026. Sources: party platforms and releases; the National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness; Treasury and ministerial announcements to August 2026 including the 13 August crisis-housing package; the Greens’ costed homelessness plans; One Nation’s published statements; Sovereign Australia’s platform. “No policy published” means none found on the public record, not indifference. One Nation’s positions are drawn from speeches and Senate interventions rather than a published platform. This table states each party’s position, not this party’s characterisation of it.
| Issue | Sovereign Australia | Labor | Coalition | Greens | One Nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The approach State + Federal |
Housing First, funded in every major city and regional centre: stable housing first, then the issues that led to it — the reverse does not work. Supply built underneath it through Community Towns and commercial conversion. | The $9.3 billion National Agreement on Social Housing and Homelessness with the states, including $400 million a year dedicated to homelessness, inside the 55,000 social and affordable homes commitment. | No dedicated homelessness policy published; its housing response centres on land supply, planning approvals and superannuation access for deposits. | End homelessness: 50,000 ongoing Housing First supportive tenancies — 20,000 for at-risk youth — 40 supportive accommodation buildings on the Common Ground model, and a $550 million a year boost to services. | No dedicated homelessness program published; attributes the crisis to migration-driven demand and would cut it, with GST off building materials to lift supply. |
| Exiting homelessness into a rental Federal |
A Commonwealth housing bond guarantee: for people exiting homelessness into private rental, the Commonwealth guarantees the first six months of rent to the landlord — removing the no-rental-history barrier. | Commonwealth Rent Assistance increased in successive budgets; renters’ rights pursued through National Cabinet agreements with the states. | No policy published on the rental exit. | Public and community housing rent capped at 25 per cent of household income; well-resourced casework support. | Allow home owners to rent rooms in their primary residence tax free, and free up granny flats for tenants other than family. |
| Crisis housing and family violence Federal |
Crisis response built on the same Housing First footing; the most complex cases — severe addiction, severe mental illness, long-term homelessness — housed in healing towns along the corridors rather than cycled through city emergency accommodation. | Over $1.2 billion in crisis and transitional housing investment — including $308 million announced in August 2026 for 448 new homes supporting more than 22,000 women and children escaping family violence. | No separate policy published. | Well-resourced crisis and transitional accommodation with priority for women and children affected by family violence, First Nations people and young people. | No separate policy published. |
| What is measured Federal |
The homelessness rate published as a standing metric on the People’s Portal — a number every government is evaluated against, updated as the data updates. | Census counts and AIHW specialist-services reporting; no standing public metric committed. | No measurement commitment published. | No measurement commitment published. | No measurement commitment published. |
Every Sovereign Australia cell restates the published policy — the Housing First, bond-guarantee and healing-town commitments in the platform, and the supply framework in the housing memos (the housing crisis, Rural Communities, City Communities). One convergence is stated plainly: both this party and the Greens cite the Housing First evidence; the difference is the supply system built underneath it and the corridor healing towns for the most complex cases.