The National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH) was introduced in 2009 as a joint Commonwealth/state and territory initiative designed to address homelessness in Australia. Our study examines five NPAH programs in Western Australia which support homeless people and those at risk of homelessness access and then sustain public housing allocations. In Australia, homeless people and those at risk of homelessness may receive crisis accommodation and other forms of support and may be assisted to get on to public housing waiting lists, but they are generally not supported to access guaranteed public housing allocations and assisted in various ways to sustain those tenancies over time.
