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Federal Election 2025

In the lead up to the next Federal Election which will be called in 2025, there is real momentum for change to address older person's homelessness across the country. Our voices are powerful and the housing crisis gripping Australia will be a key election issue.

We encourage you to contact your local federal representative and other local candidates to request meetings to talk about the issue of older person's homelessness and what needs to change. Local members are often keen to meet their constituents, especially when there is an upcoming election. They are interested in local concerns and with the right information, encouragement and clear recommendations, you can be a champion for older people and their housing issues.

Find out more about how you can get involved 

Submission to Audit Office of NSW Social Housing Review

Our submission draws on the lived experiences of older people applying for, and living in, social housing in NSW. We recommend that trauma informed approaches are taken with everyone applying for social housing and that older people are treated with dignity and respect, and highlight the need for a specialist older persons’ housing information and support service to support older people to navigate the social housing system and establish tenancies.

Read our submission

Change is Gonna Come

26 Feb 2025
Shane and Fiona talk about the upcoming Federal Election and what HAAG is asking of our Federal candidates. We conclude with ways that you can get involvedTo find out more go to https://www.oldertenants.org.au/federal-election-campaigning 
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

Retirement Villages Act amendments infographic

Our position on the Retirement Villages Amedment Bill 2024

Submission on the National Plan to End the Abuse and Mistreatment of Older People 2024–34 Public Consultation Draft

HAAG welcomes the opportunity to provide input into the National Plan to End the Abuse and Mistreatment of Older People 2024–34 Public Consultation Draft (the National Plan). Housing stress, insecurity and homelessness is integrally linked to the abuse and mistreatment of older people, and the current housing crisis has exacerbated this. Without access to a safe, secure, affordable home of their own older people can find themselves living in situations – with adult children, relatives, or strangers – where elder abuse is more likely to occur. When elder abuse does occur, a lack of alternative housing options means it is difficult to for older people to escape that abuse.

Submission to NSW Homelessness Strategy 2025 - 2035

HAAG welcomes the opportunity to provide input into the NSW Draft Homelessness Strategy 2025 – 2035. We especially acknowledge the contributions to this submission made by members of HAAG’s advisory groups including NSW Lived Experience Acton Group (LEAG), National Alliance of Seniors for Housing (NASH), Retirement Accommodation Action Group (RAAG), LGBTQIA+ reference group and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) reference group.

Extreme heat and housing justice

5 Feb 2025
Shane and Fiona talk to Sophie from Sweltering Cities on the occasion of the first Extreme Heat Awareness Day. Then we hear from HAAG member Vanessa about her experiences dealing with heat as a public housing renter. 
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

Fighting Against Inequality

22 Jan 2025
Lew Wheeler and Ann Davies from the Fight Against Inequality Network join us to talk about their new organisation aiming to connect people and organisations in the fight against inequality, particularly the widening gap between rich and poor in this country. See their website https://fainetwork.com/
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

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.

Read the briefing paper

"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!]
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

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