In December 2025, Yfoundations submitted our 2026–27 Pre-Budget submission to NSW Treasury. Our submission makes the following recommendations:

1. Increase funding for all homelessness services by 50% to address escalating costs, growing demand and widespread service sustainability risks across the homelessness system.

2. Increase social housing to at least 10% of occupied residential dwellings by 2050, with investment targeted to respond to homelessness need.

3. Ring-fence a proportionate share of new homelessness and housing investment for child and youth homelessness, reflecting that children and young people comprise nearly half of all people accessing homelessness support.

4. Prioritise the use of increased funding to:

• stabilise existing youth homelessness services, including meeting real operating costs such as wages, insurance, utilities and compliance

• support implementation of the Child and Youth Homelessness Action Plan through additional investment across the full spectrum of services.

5. Invest in youth-specific housing models as part of social housing expansion, including, medium-term and transitional housing, recognising that integrated support provision is an essential and inseparable component of these models.

6. Engage the youth homelessness sector and young people with lived experience in dedicated processes to inform the development, implementation and monitoring of the Child and Youth Homelessness Action Plan.