Local community groups say they have a plan to end homelessness in Logan

Logan Zero is one part of a national campaign by the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, combining the resources of YFS, Kingston East Neighbourhood Group, Logan East Community Neighbourhood Centre and the Twin Rivers Centre to assist the city's homeless households.

Community lead for the Logan Zero project, Darren McGhee, said the aim was to achieve a "functional zero" where more people find than lose housing.

"What we're saying with functional zero means the people coming into the system are no more than people going out of the system," Mr McGhee said.

"We make it a one-time thing of someone being homeless. It's brief and it's non-reoccurring."

The first step in the project is to compile a database of the homeless households in Logan, and with their consent create a profile.

This is then used to find adequate housing and also ensure ongoing support, through healthcare and other services, for those who have experienced homelessness.

Mr McGhee said this would re-shape the way homelessness is dealt with, as it would paint the most accurate picture to date of the problem.

"We've never had an accurate picture of the numbers [of homeless people] for various reasons," he said.

"We're highly reliant on connections with other services to help us out.

"There's about 25 communities like ourselves that are already running so we feed the data up with the hope that at a federal level, and higher state levels they can develop that data and we can make a difference."

Part of that difference, according to Mr McGhee, was using the comprehensive data set to advocate for more investment in social housing to ease supply issues.

Logan Zero reports the first 50 households have been entered into the database, numbering 127 people between the ages of 16 and 63 years old and including 65 children.

67 per cent of those surveyed were female, and 78 per cent had at least one chronic health condition, 84 per cent had experienced trauma and 65 per cent had experienced violence.

Mr McGhee said these factors, combined with a lack of outreach workers in the city and little support for those navigating social services made for a complex problem to solve.

"When I talk to services we would say 'you've all got different parts of the problem that you're looking at'," he said.

"We've been talking with corrections and saying 'you've got people transitioning from corrections into a homelessness situation'. They've got that piece of the puzzle.

"Then we've got the youth when they use services and transitioning from youth justice or from being in care. They've got another piece of the homeless puzzle that gets fitted together.

"All of them hold different pieces of the puzzle, that's why it's been hard to estimate and the systems don't talk to one another."

Cath Bartolo, chief executive of Logan Zero's host organisation YFS, said despite the complexity homelessness need not be a fact of life.

"Homelessness in Logan is not inevitable," Ms Bartolo said.

"We need to work together as a community to match people to the housing and support services that they need."