The Homeless Hub revealed earlier this week it had received notification it had to vacate its current premises in Junction Street, Nowra on Australia Day next year and it might not be able to afford increased rents for another commercial location in Nowra.

The service has operated out of its site for more than 20 years, with its current landlord offering "a much reduced rent."

Cr Findley said she would like to see council investigate if it has any properties available which could be utilised as a new home for the Hub.

"The Hub does fantastic work, we all know that, I would hate to see us lose the service," she said.

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"It would be a massive blow to people who are receiving help from the Hub if we were to lose it.

"I want to see what council can do to assist - but it's also about getting the whole community to bring it to council's attention who's got what available and how it might be able to be utilised to continue this service."

Cr Findely said she's hopeful council "might have a property available or at least broker a deal" to help find them a new local home.

"I'm not sure what council has available and I know under statutory laws, council can in some cases, just charge minimum rental funds," she said,

"I would even like to see council investigate the possibility of even putting a small subsidy towards any higher rent it [the Hub] might be charged if it is forced to move into a commercial building.

"It is a big step up for them to rent a commercial building."

And that building would ideally have to be in central Nowra somewhere, so its clients could walk, if needed, to other local services.

"We need to see what's possible, if council has any available buildings and if not, we need to try and find a commercial philanthropist to maybe come onboard and acknowledge the important work the Hub is performing and hopefully provide a property with reduced rent," Cr Findley said.

"We want and need the Homeless Hub to continue."

Cr Findely said both the state and federal governments have roles to play.

"It's shocking the state and federal governments are completely missing in action," she said.

Council has established the Homelessness Taskforce and along with Salt Ministries and other ministries around town has the Safe Shelter Shoalhaven program.

"It feels like the state government is completely absent and council is doing the heavy lifting. It's a shocking situation," Cr Findley said.

In the last financial year the Shoalhaven Homeless Hub helped 536 clients, a 128 per cent increase over its funded target.

"The Homeless Hub does a great job but it is remarkable in a rich country like Australia we have got such a housing crisis," she said.

"If this housing crisis does not cause state and federal governments to do some navel gazing and move that navel gazing to action I don't know what will - when does human suffering actually force action from those other levels of government?

"I've been banging on for five years, I call it the hamster wheel just spinning around, trying to get the state government, who has some fantastic assets here in the Shoalhaven, to either refresh them or build some new medium density housing on the old blocks of land they have or the run down properties and we could start to move this problem and get people into homes.

"It's just impossible to think they cannot see it as a win-win - a win for the community, a win for business and a win for the government - they can cut the ribbons and be the heroes but at the moment they are not doing any of that."

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