Older people and innovative solutions to homelessness will be a key focus at the Gold Coast Homeless Symposium occurring tomorrow.

Almost $8 million in Homelessness Program funding has been committed by the Palaszczuk Government to seven support services on the Gold Coast for 2018-19 to provide support to those in need.

In 2014, there was a total of 4500 homeless people in the city and the current ABS Census shows an increase of homelessness in Australia in 5 years.