Campaigns
Do you think government needs to take more action to provide safe, secure and affordable housing? Do you want to take action on housing issues affecting older people? Do you have ideas about how housing services could better assist older people? Are you worried about the housing situation of the future? Join HAAG and get involved
Priced out, Run Down: Older women renters speak
Shane and Fiona speak to Lynn and Aradia about our recent Canberra trip, launching the report Priced Out and Run Down: Older Australians in unaffordable and poor condition housing. They speak about their experiences as older renters, and what they thought of meeting politicians in Canberra. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Renter's rights, Federal Campaigns
New report: Older People Suffering in Poor Quality, Expensive Housing
Swinburne University and Housing for the Aged Action Group released a new report at Parliament House in Canberra today, showing that across the country, older people are increasingly facing multiple, overlapping forms of housing precarity, with serious impacts on their health and wellbeing. Older renters face the greatest risk, living in housing insecurity in unaffordable and… …
Posted in: Media Releases, News Updates, Renter's rights, Federal Campaigns
Commissioner calling for renters and retirement village residents for new consultative group
The Commissioner for Residential Tenancies and Social Housing is calling for older people to join her Renters advisory group, and a new group for Retirement Village residents. …
Posted in: News Updates, Renter's rights, Retirement Housing, Victoria
Victorian Pre-budget Submission 2026-2027
HAAG’s pre-budget submission calls on the Victorian Government to further invest in our housing support and early intervention services, build Public and Community housing with some set aside for older people, revitalise the ILU sector and pilot shared equity housing schemes for older people. Read our pre-budget submission …
Posted in: Submissions, Victoria
Getting the wheels rolling for older women’s housing in Queensland
HAAG participated in the first-ever Community-led Housing (CLH) Roundtable in Queensland, led by the Queensland Housing Minister and bringing together government representatives, sector leaders and academics, alongside Q Shelter, the Housing Older Women Movement (HOWM) and individuals with lived experience of housing insecurity and homelessness. …
Posted in: News Updates, Older Women, Queensland
Housing Older Women Movement Queensland
Maggie Shambrook from the Housing Older Women’s Movement in Queensland tells us about the Housing Roundtable with the housing minister and the Movement’s push for community-led housing as one solution to the housing crisis facing older people. https://housingolderwomen.org.au/ …
Posted in: Podcasts, Housing Older Women Movement Queensland, Older Women, Queensland
Housing is a Human Right in ACT law!
The Australian Capital Territory Parliament has enshrined the right to housing as a human right! HAAG supported this legislation through our submission, and we call on all other states and territories to follow suit. …
Posted in: News Updates, Australian Capital Territory
Submission to the Inquiry into Aged Care Service Delivery
The new Support at Home program, implemented in response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, aims to ensure ‘a simpler and more equitable system for older people that helps them to stay at home for longer’. While HAAG supports this vision, we hold grave concerns about whether the implementation of the… …
Posted in: Submissions, Care Finder
Older Women's Housing in Queensland
We’re talking to Tegan Haslam from Housing Older Women’s Support Service. …
Posted in: Podcasts, Older Women, Queensland
Not just unfair, unlawful: VCAT rules against village charging Deferred Management Fees
Housing for the Aged Action Group welcomes VCAT’s decision which found that the Residential Tenancies Act prevented a land lease village from charging Deferred Management Fees (DMFs). DMFs are a common kind of exit fee charged across several types of retirement housing, often costing departing residents or their families tens of thousands of dollars or… …
Posted in: Media Releases, Retirement Housing, Victoria
Cantonese voices from the Towers
Fiona speaks to Uncle Tim, via a Cantonese interpreter, about his experience living in one of the public housing towers which is due to be demolished. He gives his thoughts about how the information has been communicated with him and other residents, and the Government plans for the site.You can find out more about the… …
Posted in: Podcasts, Public Housing, Community Languages, Traditional Chinese – 普通话, Victoria
Consultation on the proposed community housing development for women and children in Rosebud
Housing for the Aged Action Group strongly supports the Council’s proposal to lease land for community housing in Rosebud. We commend Mornington Peninsula Shire for its vision to provide safe, stable, and affordable medium-term housing for low-income women and their children, as well as women aged 55 and over at risk of homelessness. Community housing… …
Posted in: Submissions, Aged care, Victoria