Housing for the Aged Action Group acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we work, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island elders past, present and future.
We welcome all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over the age of 45 years of age to access our housing services, to work together with us for housing justice, and to work with us.
Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities face unique challenges when it comes to accessing and maintaining housing. In 2016-17 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 25% of the clients accessing specialist homelessness services. To ensure the needs of this community are adequately and appropriately addressed HAAG can also refer clients to the specialist services that are best placed to provide support, if they wish. Information on some of these services can be found below.
We have a deep respect for the world’s longest surviving culture and wish to identify opportunities within our organisation to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are over represented in homelessness. To this end HAAG has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to support the national reconciliation movement.
Latest updates
Back at home in river country
Kayleen, a 55-year-old Yorta Yorta Aboriginal woman, was given HAAG’s number by a friend to talk about her housing needs. Kayleen had been residing in NSW for the past 40 years. When she lost her mother, it left her feeling isolated from her family and community. Kayleen felt she needed to return to her traditional Yorta Yorta Country to heal and …Posted in: Aboriginal Communities, Client Stories, North Central Victoria
Reflect – Reconciliation Action Plan
We have a deep respect for the world’s longest surviving culture and wish to identify opportunities within our organisation to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who are over represented in homelessness. To this end HAAG has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to support the national reconciliation movement. …Posted in: Aboriginal Communities, Organisational Documents
HAAG supports the YES vote in the Voice to Parliament Referendum
HAAG supports the YES vote in the Voice to Parliament Referendum. The Referendum gives us the opportunity to formally acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia through an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice being enshrined in the Constitution. …Posted in: Aboriginal Communities, News Updates, Campaigns, Federal Campaigns
Resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders
Aboriginal Housing Victoria
A not-for-profit registered Housing Association servicing Victoria.
Aboriginal Community Elders Service
Located in Brunswick, ACES is a community controlled organisation that provides all three aged care programs: Home And Community Care (HACC), Koori Community Aged Care Program (KCACP), Planned Activities Group (PAG) and Residential care services.
WAYSS – Indigenous Tenants at Risk Program
Services are funded to provide assistance to people in the Cities of Greater Dandenong, Frankston, Casey and the Shires of Cardinia and Mornington Peninsula