2006 Census data (not adjusted by undercount estimates).

No data is currently available for the numerator number of homeless Australia’s for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.

The latest data that are available refer to year 2006-2007 (specifically with the reference date 8 August 2006_ and appear in the Chamberlain and MacKenzie national and state/territory Counting the Homeless 2006 reports. The estimates are based on data from the 2006 Census, 2006-2007 Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) and the 3rd National Census of Homeless School Students).

At the AIHW/ABS hosted Housing and Homelessness data Workshop (30 March 2009) jurisdictional representatives agreed that the definition of homelessness for COAG reporting purposes should be as used in the National  Partnership Agreement on Homelessness. It was also agreed that long term residents of caravan parks should be enumerated but are not within scope of the formal definition for homelessness.

In the National Partnership Agreement (NPA) on homelessness, homeless people are described in terms of three categories. The tree categories are consistent with those used in Counting the Homeless 2006 reports:

• Primary homelessness means people without conventional accommodation, including people living on the streets and in other public places such as parks, squatting in buildings, or using vehicles for temporary shelter (the term rough sleeping, which also appears in the NPA, is taken to be synonymous with primary homelessness.)
• Secondary homelessness means people staying in emergency or transitional accommodation and people residing temporarily with other households because they have no accommodation of their own. It also includes people staying in emergency or transitional accommodation provided by governments and non-government organisations and people residing in boarding houses for 12 weeks or less.
• Tertiary homelessness means people living in boarding houses on a medium to long term basis for over 12 weeks.
  

Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations for the National Affordability Housing Agreement (NAHA), annual. 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

SCRGSP (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision) 2009,
National Agreement performance information 2008-09: National Affordable Housing
Agreement, Productivity Commission, Canberra.

The report was released by the COAG Reform Council in 2010.

NPA on Homelessness Baseline: 104,676 Australian who are homeless in 2006.

Benchmark: By 2013 a decrease of 7% (less than 97,350 homeless people).