Homelessness Learning Forum 2025

Homelessness Learning Forum (HLF) is an annual event organised by New Hope Community Services and partners working in the homelessness sector in Singapore. Come and hear perspectives from leading social service practitioners and people with lived experience of homelessness, and engage in guided discussions on what it takes to better meet the needs of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping. Whether you're in the social service sector, a community partner, or an advocate for the homeless, this event offers a platform to exchange ideas, share best practices, and envision a future where the homeless community has every opportunity to thrive.

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HLF2025: When and Where?

13 Nov 2024
(Thursday)

TBC

HLF2025 Theme

Timely Steps, Lasting Impact

Addressing Homelessness at Life's Key Moments

Since its inception in 2019, the Homelessness Learning Forum (HLF) has been a platform to reflect on progress, surface ground realities, and explore innovative responses to homelessness in Singapore. In recent years, we have seen promising strides — expanded shelter and housing typologies, a more coordinated ecosystem, and deeper partnerships across agencies.

Yet, homelessness continues to evolve, shaped by diverse pathways, life transitions and structural vulnerabilities. In 2025, we turn our attention upstream. This year's theme explores how early, life-stage-sensitive interventions can break the cycle of housing instability before it begins or worsens. The complexity of homlessness today demands that we intervene not only at the point of crisis but earlier — during childhood, adolesences, early adulthood, and through major life transitions such as incarceration, hospitalisation, or retirement. Effective early intervention could mean identifying risk factors in youth without safe family support, supporting low-income adults navigating chronic illness, or helping older persons facing eviction due to isolation or financial strain.

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