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Older Australians are facing an increasingly uphill battle with the cost of renting in the private market, data from the Productivity Commission’s 2017 Report on Government Services shows.

Kimberley Seedy, Knox Leader -January 21, 2017

WANTIRNA Caravan Park evictees have told of the financial stress they are under, with one man standing to lose $170,000 on the unit he is now trying to sell...

The Conversation - Alan Morris -12th December 2016

The average housing costs of older (65-plus) outright homeowners in lone-person households were A$38 a week in 2013-14, the Australian Bureau of Statistics calculated, compared to $103 for older social housing tenants and $232 for older private renters.

 

By Beau Donelly - December 12, 2016 - The Age

Beverly and William Bolton have lived at the BP caravan park in Werribee South for 23 years. Cabin No. 49 is a modest three-bedroom demountable, but it's home...

Open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull - December 2016

HAAG stand with the 209 community agencies who are calling on COAG to secure the future of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH)...

 

The Project - Channel 10 - 5th December 2016

Residential Parks are being sold off to property developers for millions, while those who own a home on the land -often over 55s- are being compensated poorly, or not at all.

5th December 2016

The Victorian Gender Equality Strategy was launched at the Melbourne Arts Centre by Fiona Richardson, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence.

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