Age Discrimination in Housing and Homelessness Briefing Paper

HAAG have identified three key areas of significant age-related discrimination; Financial discrimination, employment discrimination and housing discrimination.

HAAG acknowledges that some groups may experience compounding discrimination based on LGBTQ+ status, disability status, being culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) or being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background.

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"Crones, Hags and Witches": Older women's housing wisdom

8 Jan 2025
We hear from two older women with a lived experience of homelessness, Vera and Angela,  who fall into the "missing middle" eligibility gap for housing support, speaking at the launch of HAAG's research Not Poor Enough, Not Rich Enough: older people falling through the housing eligibility gap, conducted by Swinburne University of Technology. Read the report here [Apologies for the background noise towards the begining of the episode - blame new year brain fog!]
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Community Educator Trainings

17 Feb 2024

Older people need safe, secure and affordable housing as they age. But more and more people don’t have a secure place to live, or are becoming homeless. We need your help to solve this problem! We are looking for people who can help us engage with the community so that they can access our services. We will be providing a 5 week training for you to become a community educator. Through this training, you can either choose to become a bilingual educator, a community educator for the LGBTIQA+ community or a general community educator who can link older people at risk of homelessness to HAAG services.

Ageing on the Edge NSW Pre-Budget Submission 2025-26

The NSW Ageing on the Edge Pre-Budget Submission provides proposals to address the housing crisis for older people in NSW who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. We call on the NSW government to: fund a specialist older persons’ housing information and support service that comprises both an early intervention and crisis response; lower the priority age for social housing eligibility from 80 years as a matter of urgency; and build 5,000 social homes per year for 10 years, 20% of which should be dedicated to older people.

Read the NSW Ageing on the Edge Pre-Budget Submission

 

 

Older women's safety with Seniors Rights Victoria

11 Dec 2024
Gary Ferguson is the Education Coordinator at Seniors Rights Victoria. He discusses older women's safety and how elder abuse intersects with housing and women's safety, as well as the importance of early intervention and prevention.Seniors Rights Victoria www.seniorsrights.org.auLGBTIAQ+ Elder Abuse Survey 
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Older Tenants Voice Summer 2024

Summer's edition of Older Tenants Voice is packed with colourful photos from our recent events, call outs for for participation in our CALD projects and federal election campaigns, reports on the Retirement Villages Amendments, and a summer special puzzle section with HAAG themed Sudoku, trivia, and a cryptic crossword!

Enjoy the summertime while reading the latest edition of Older Tenants Voice

Homeless not hopeless

Sue is 74 years old and became homeless when her daughter asked her to leave her property in NSW. She moved to Victoria to stay with a friend, who helped her to connect with the local crisis homelessness service, Beyond Housing. She was referred into our program by Beyond Housing Seymour.

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Care finder case study

Rodney, an 85 year old man, was living in a bungalow at the back of a house in the western suburbs of Melbourne. He has lived independently his whole life, never married and has no children.

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Renegotiating Rent Rises in Retirement Housing

Joseph lives in a small retirement village in a regional area. Although some residents have paid ingoings up to $85,000, the village largely caters to people on pensions with little or no savings. Many, including Joseph, didn’t pay any upfront fee and simply rent their units month to month.

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