$30.4 million to support vulnerable people in housing and support frontline services

Monday, 9 June 2025

The Minns Labor Government will invest $30.4 million in a new Crisis Intervention package to ensure more vulnerable people can access homelessness services and find a safe place to live.

The 2025-26 NSW Budget includes:

• $20 million to expand existing crisis and transitional housing, delivering more beds and frontline support across NSW to help people in urgent need.
• $10.4 million over four years for the Bill Crews Foundation to support our homeless community.

This package gives homelessness services breathing room now, while we roll out the long-term fix: more public housing and more affordable homes, especially for victim-survivors of family and domestic violence.

The Minns Labor Government is pleased to match recently announced Commonwealth funding to the Bill Crews Foundation, which will help to secure the Foundation’s future.

The Foundation’s frontline crisis centre is one of only two accessible free medical and drop-in centres in Sydney, serving the homeless, people experiencing mental illness, drug and alcohol addictions, and financial distress.

This immediate support in the 2025-26 Budget builds on the Government’s historic $6.6 billion Building Homes for NSW Program. This included a $527 million injection to expand homelessness services.

The record funding to build and maintain social housing and to expand frontline homelessness services, is the most significant investment in public and affordable housing in our state's history, following more than a decade of neglect.

The Government will prioritise over 50 per cent of new homes built for women and children fleeing family and domestic violence. Right now, more than 2,400 households are supported in hotel-style temporary accommodation each night, and 4 in 10 people seeking homelessness support are turned away.

The Minns Labor Government is prioritising spending money on building homes for people in need.

The 2025-26 Budget will give services the opportunity to deliver more stable, supported options while we get on with the job of building more homes across NSW.

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said:

“This is responsible spending that helps people who need it the most and continues the work of repairing a system that had been neglected for far too long.

“We’re serious about changing the way services are delivered to people going through crisis. That means prioritising housing over paying hotel bills.

“I’m personally very pleased to continue supporting the magnificent work of Reverend Bill Crews. For more than thirty years he and his foundation have helped countless people through really tough times, and we want to make sure they can keep doing what they do.”

Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson said:

“This is a clear choice: invest in real support and proper housing or keep pouring public money into motels. We’re choosing the first.

“You can’t end homelessness without building more homes — that’s why we’re delivering record investment in public and affordable housing through our Building Homes for NSW program.

“This package gives services breathing room now, while we roll out the long-term fix: more public housing, more affordable homes, and a system that actually meets the need.”

“This funding is about giving people a stable place to stay tonight — but also making sure they have somewhere permanent to go tomorrow.”