Making Home: Make Room

Open House Melbourne presents Making Home, a series of talks and tours that helps public audiences better understand social and affordable housing.

Make Room will provide secure supportive housing for people experiencing rough sleeping or chronic homelessness in the City of Melbourne for up to 12 months or until they can secure access to long-term secure housing. The project is a groundbreaking partnership between the City of Melbourne and Unison Housing, the Victorian Government and the philanthropic and corporate sectors which addresses the critical needs of people experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness within our city.

One of the first of its kind, the project repurposes a City of Melbourne owned building into specialist supportive housing managed by community housing provider Unison Housing. Unison will partner with community health organisation cohealth and Aboriginal community-controlled organisation Ngwala Willumbong to provide wraparound health and social supports to prepare and transition people into longer-term sustainable housing.

Tour Make Room with representatives from Unison Housing, City of Melbourne, cohealth and i2C Architects to hear about how this adaptive reuse project represents an innovative and collaborative approach to deliver successful supportive housing.