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17th September 2015

On Thursday 17th September HAAG’s Home at Last service won a major award for Excellence in Ending Homelessness Amongst Older People...


26th August 2015

Housing for the Aged Action Group Inc has been nominated for the 2015 Victorian Homelessness Achievement Awards...


25th August 2015

The plan to demolish the towers and redevelop the site was considered by the previous state government. But Housing Minister Martin Foley said the towers would stay because the residents wanted to keep them...


24th August 2015

Prime public housing land that could house hundreds of residents is lying vacant, despite a waiting list that recently surpassed 34,000 people...


13th August 2015

The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation has announced an Exploration Grant 'Homelessness Housing & Disadvantage' Impact Area for Housing for the Aged Action Group.The Exploration Grant Program is a very important part of the Foundation's commitment to supporting new ideas and solutions within impact areas...


 

By Beatrice Kelly. the Age 23 July 2015

Thirty-odd years ago when I was in my mid 30s, I saw an advertisement for a free financial counselling session at an inner-city community centre. I was interested: first, because the counsellor bore the same name as a dear brother of mine, a hopeless financial manager whom my father had bailed out more than once. But less flippantly, I wanted to buy my own place...

 


 By Judith Ireland - Sydney Morning Herald - Published: July 2, 2015 - 12:15AM

"Council (on the Ageing) chief executive Ian Yates is calling on governments to do more to address factors such as financial insecurity pushing more older women into poverty and homelessness"... Go to story here


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