Regional issues
HAAG provides services in regional communities, and campaigns for older people’s housing services to be available no matter where they live.
Floods and renters rights
Shane and Fiona talk to Johnathon Gurry, the Director of Policy and Research at VCOSS, about their new report into the impact of floods on disadvantaged Victorians, Turning the Tide. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Climate, Renter's rights
Older renters in the Victorian Fires 2026
Fiona and Liz talk to Teresa, Anne and Leanne about the impact of the fires and heatwaves on vulnerable older renters in northern Victoria.Consumer Affairs Victoria disaster help: 1300 55 8181 …
Posted in: Podcasts, Climate, North Central Victoria
Health, housing and severe weather events
Shane and Liz talk to Primary Care Connect CEO Tricia Quibbell about their work on community health in regional Victoria, and the impacts of severe weather events. Then Shane talks to Fiona about her experiences giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry about the public housing tower demolitions. …
Providing evidence at the Inquiry into the Supply of Homes in Regional Victoria
We provided evidence to the Inquiry that, increasing numbers of older people in regional Victoria do not own their own homes and they find themselves facing the real and frightening prospect of homelessness in older age. Older people in regional Victoria are facing a significant and growing housing crisis that has serious impacts on their… …
Posted in: News Updates, Campaigns, Victoria
Helping older people in regional Victoria
Shane and Fiona speak to regional workers Teresa and Anne about the work they do supporting older people to access housing in regional Victoria. This work is entirely funded by the Ian Rollo Currie Foundation. If you want to support the program head to www.oldertenants.org.au/donate or call HAAG on (03) 96547389 …
Posted in: Podcasts
Submission to the inquiry into the supply of homes in regional Victoria
HAAGs submission to this Victorian Parliament inquiry draws on the experiences HAAG hears about the serious lack of homes for older people in regional Victoria. We call for a range of measures to ensure older people in regional Victoria have secure and appropriate housing, including: increasing public and community housing to 10% of all housing… …
Posted in: Submissions, Campaigns, Victoria
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, Cohousing & Housing Cooperatives
Burning need for more affordable housing
Fiona and Leonie talk about the impact of the East Gippsland fires on older people experiencing homelessness, with Assistance with Care and Housing Worker Val Marshall. Val talks about the evacuations, the lack of public housing, the expensive rents and the difficulty in finding housing for people even before these fires. …
Independent Voices project launch
Collecting & recording the experiences of residents of Independent Living Units in Victoria Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) is launching a project to explore the experiences of residents living in not-for-profit retirement villages in the northern metropolitan area and the Loddon Mallee and Grampians regions. At the end of February, the Victorian parliament… …
Posted in: News Updates, Independent Living Units, Retirement Housing