(Community Recognition Statement, 10 August 2022, Legislative Assembly, NSW Parliament)

On behalf of the Sydney electorate, I wish to acknowledge the great work of the PIAC StreetCare program. StreetCare brings together a diverse group of people with experience of homelessness, working alongside PIAC's Homeless Person's Legal Service to promote structural and systemic reform to homelessness and housing. This excellent project supports members to be active advocates and advisors to government and other stakeholders on law reform, decision-making, policy analysis and training on homelessness and housing. The service was strengthened under the leadership of project officer Charmaine Jones, and I acknowledge her passion, advocacy, and long-term commitment to assisting marginalised people become involved in finding sustainable and lasting solutions to issues that affect themselves and their communities. I commend the StreetCare project for their impressive work helping to nurture and promote the voices of those with lived experience. This is a vital step to improving government policy and service responses by making sure decision makers hear directly about the importance of having a home.