HLF2025 Main Forum Agenda

This year's theme is "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.