YPHA Inc. is the Sunshine Coast's not-for-profit advocacy body for young Australians locked out of housing. We organise. We show up. We push for change.
It's a foundation. The right to a home, to plant roots, raise a family, build a life, has been the quiet promise underneath every Australian generation. For young people today, that promise is being broken.
These are the principles that shape everything we do.
Outright ownership is out of reach for most young people right now, so we don't start there. We start with the basics that make a home possible, securing land to build on and backing rent to buy, then build towards ownership from solid ground.
We are not advocated for. We organise, run, and decide together. Every member has a vote.
Prefab, modular, community land trusts, planning reform. We back what works, regardless of who proposes it.
From a string of rental knockbacks to an incorporated advocacy body, in a matter of months.
Amber and Saxon start hunting for a rental on the Sunshine Coast. What follows is months of knockbacks.
At a Buderim inspection, a realtor says it to their faces, about their age. That's the moment the search stops being personal and starts being a cause.
They write to every local, state and federal politician they can find. Almost all of them brush it off. Cr Joe Natoli is the one who answers, and he connects them with Geoff Clarke, a retired builder and housing campaigner.
With Geoff as President, they register YPHA Inc. under the Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (QLD). Inc. No. IA4942861. The work becomes official.
Submissions, council engagement, member events, the Youth Festival, and the practical projects across this site.
An elected committee of young people and allies, all working pro bono.
"I have grandsons in Sydney and I just believe that they'll never own a house. In this great country of ours, we are forsaking our young generation."
Every major decision, palette, brand, layout, advocacy priorities, is voted on by the membership. Democracy isn't theatre here.