Cohousing & Housing Cooperatives
Cohousing and housing cooperatives provide innovative, community-led solutions to providing older people with affordable and appropriate housing
Older People's Housing at the Victorian Homelessness Conference
Shane and Fiona hear from speakers at the Victorian Homelessness Conference, held at Melbourne Town Hall late last year. Vera Considine talks about her experience of precarious housing as an older woman, and Peter Sibly talks about his plans for the Footscray Lions Village co-operative for older women. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Client Stories, Campaigns, Victoria
United we Stand: forty years of co-operative housing
Fiona and Shane talk to Janet, Mea and Peter from United Housing co-op on their 40th anniversary. We discuss the history of co-operative movements and the importance of partipatory tenant-led housing, how things have changed and what the future might hold for this important housng type. …
Posted in: Podcasts
Hear the lions roar – Footscray Lions Village
Fiona and Shane speak to Anicia, Violet, Elvie and David about the Footscray Lions Village redevelopment and their hopes for the future.To read more about the United Housing Co-op and Lions Club partnership to build 55+ womens housing, see https://www.unitedhousing.org.au/news/united-housing-co-operative-big-housing-build/To sign the Sweltering Cities petition for better cooling in rental housing see …
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United in Housing – Cooperatives and the Big Housing Build
Fiona and Shane talk to Peter Sibly, General Manager of United Housing Co-operative, about his new project to build housing for women aged 55 years and older in the Western Suburbs, with a grant from the Victorian Governments Big Housing Build. He talks about co-operative housing as a model for tenant participation and reminisces about… …
Posted in: Podcasts, Public Housing
Community Housing Co-Ops in East Gippsland; Surviving the Fires
Fiona speaks to Deb Foskey, an older resident of Orbost in far East Gippsland, about her experience as a member of a remote community housing co-operative in the 1970’s and 80’s and more recently, what it has been like for older people coping with the recent fires. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Climate, Regional issues
Cohousing & Aged Care
The second part of our discussion on cohousing. Fiona and Leonie from HAAG talk to Myfan Jordan from Per Capita about her new research with a focus on older women’s housing and aged care. You can read more about her research here. Fiona also discusses her experiences explaining the connections and disconnections between homelessness and aged care at the… …
Cohousing for the Aged?
Fiona and Leonie from HAAG talk to Myfan Jordan from Per Capita about her new research on cohousing and aged care in the first of a two-part interview exploring older women’s housing issues. You can read more about her research here. …
Large and in charge
Pam and Fiona chat to Jeanette Large from Women’s Property initiatve about their older women’s housing pilot program, building housing for older women with a small amount of savings. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Older Women