It's hoped a program successfully eradicating rough sleeping in communities across the world will do the same in Mandurah.
More than 70 representatives were in attendance to hear the official launch of Mandurah's By Name List, a key tool for collaboratively allocating housing and support resources for people experiencing homelessness.
The first step of setting up the real-time list was conducted earlier this year with local homelessness organisations surveying 41 rough sleepers in the community.
85 per cent of respondents expressed needing housing to feel safe and nearly two thirds of people also had been verbally or physically abused.
"These findings while alarming, do enable local agencies and services such as us, to gain a more accurate account of people experiencing homelessness so we can identify the types of support they may need, and help match people to the right support," Peel Passages Youth Engagement Hub manager Jade Gillespie said.
Zero Project manager Leah Watkins said the By Name List would help Mandurah reach functional zero status when it comes to people sleeping rough.
"To end homelessness you need a methodology that doesn't just look at what services we need to deliver but how our whole service system works together," she said.
"The By Name List doesn't just look at how many people we house but how many people are coming into homelessness.
"By reaching functional zero it means the number of people actively sleeping rough each month is less than the number you house each month."
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The program has proved successful internationally with 13 communities in North America reaching functional zero and 41 achieving a measurable reduction in homelessness.
Many community organisations said collaboration would be key in reaching functional zero rough sleeping in the region.
"It's beyond one organisation to deliver no matter how that organisation may be. It takes a group of organisations to come together to deal with the person and the situation the person is in," Anglicare WA chief executive Mark Glasson said.
While Vinnies executive manager Sandy McKiernan said, "The biggest take away in tackling homelessness is that we can't do it alone and we don't do it alone."
