Reports
Working towards an older persons homelessness prevention strategy for the Victorian Homelessness Action Plan Reform
The Home at Last Service has been in operation since June 2012 as an Innovations Action Project (IAP) as part of the Victorian Government’s Homelessness Action Plan. Over the two years of the project Home at Last has become widely integrated into the housing, homelessness, health and aged care service systems across Victoria. This report outlines recommendations to extend the service as part of an older persons homelessness prevention strategy for Victoria. Read the Report …
What will happen to me?
Older People facing housing crisis in the private rental market. By Liza Lucas and Mary Morrissey Research conducted during June – November 2012. Download Report (1.56 MB) …
Residents’ Committees Building Bridges in Parks and Villages
The results of a project documenting the benefits and barriers of residents’ committees for retirees in caravan and residential parks and villages will hopefully assist to improve relationships between residents and operators in parks around Victoria. HAAG with funding from the Victoria Law Foundation has completed the project out of a need to inform older residents in parks about their right to form committees in response to changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1997. In September 2011 Part 4A was introduced into the Act improving protections for permanent parks residents who own their dwelling but lease/rent the site on which it …Posted in: Retirement Housing Advice Service
When the buck stops
HAAG’s first report was published in 1984, a photographic booklet showing the lives of older renters forced to compete in the private rental market. Read When the Buck Stops …
