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
Retirement bill a step in right direction, but more needs to be done to protect residents
Housing for the Aged Action Group calls the government’s Retirement Villages Act Amendments Bill, released today after a five-year consultation period, a “mixed bag” that includes important improvements for residents but leaves some major areas of concern inadequately addressed. …
Posted in: Media Releases, Retirement Housing Advice Service
Victorian Pre-Budget Submission 2025-2026
HAAG’s Pre-Budget Submission provides proposals to address the impacts of the housing crisis on older Victorians. We call on the Victorian government to: respond to the specific housing needs older people by increasing investment in the Home at Last service so it can provide support across the state; fund housing options for older renters who… …
Posted in: Submissions, Victoria
Older people falling through the housing assistance eligibility gap – Fact Sheet
Summarising research first published in Not poor enough, not rich enough: older people falling through the housing assistance eligibility gap, this fact sheet illustrates the scale of the housing affordability crisis affecting older people in Australia, the current lack of housing options that they can afford, as well as proposed solutions. Read the fact sheet …
Posted in: Fact Sheets
Older Person’s Housing forum at Victorian Parliament
Shane and Fiona hear from Prof Wendy Stone, Veda and Chuping who spoke at HAAG’s older peoples housing forum at Victorian Parliament House in September …
Submission to the Inquiry into Aged Care Bill 2024
The Aged Care Bill aims to legislate a number of changes proposed by the Aged Care Taskforce including Support at Home. Fundamental to receiving support at home is the expectation that older people have a stable home. HAAG makes a number of recommendations to ensure older people in private rental, marginal housing and other precarious… …
Posted in: Submissions, Care Finder, Federal Campaigns
Supplementary Submission into the Aged Care Bill – age eligibility
We are particularly concerned by the suggestion that no person under 65 should be eligible for aged care services in any circumstance. If implemented, this would exclude prematurely aged homeless people, or those at risk of homelessness, from accessing specialist aged care services like residential care and Support at Home. Our clients often age prematurely… …
Posted in: Submissions, Care Finder, Federal Campaigns
Flemington high rise residents speak
We hear from older residents of the Flemington public housing high rise slated for redevelopment, recorded at a community meeting on 19 September (thanks Danielle!)Residents are Awatif, Khadija, Ka-tam and Osman and we also hear from Jeannie, former resident of Bang Street and Barack Beacon, speaking at a rally for public housing on Saturday 19 October.You… …
Posted in: Podcasts, Public Housing, Victoria
Residential parks survey now open!
The Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC), in partnership with the Commissioner for Residential Tenancies, aim to research the issues faced by tenants in residential parks by engaging with residents, industry experts, housing professionals, and community organisations. A key part of the project includes surveys for residents and operators to identify their challenges. Residential Park… …
Posted in: News Updates, Residential Parks, Retirement Housing, Victoria
Not poor enough, not rich enough: new research highlights older Australians falling through the cracks of housing crisis
More than half a million Australians aged 55 or over are at risk of falling through the cracks, according to a new Swinburne report launched today, that shows they are neither poor enough to qualify for effective and accessible housing assistance nor wealthy enough to secure housing independently as they age. …
Posted in: Media Releases, Missing Middle, Federal Campaigns
Not poor enough, not rich enough: Older people falling through the housing assistance eligibility gap
The research identifies and estimates the incidence of people aged 55 or older who are at risk of ‘non-supported housing precarity,’ referred to here as the Missing Middle. This target group includes older Australians who are ‘not poor enough’ to qualify for – or be in receipt of – current housing assistance but ‘not wealthy… …
Posted in: Reports, Missing Middle, Federal Campaigns
World Homeless Day plea – VPTA and HAAG push for bold public housing commitment
This World Homeless Day, the Victorian Public Tenants Association (VPTA) is calling on the state government to urgently address the social housing crisis by committing to the delivery of at least 60,000 new social housing homes, a strong proportion of which must be public housing homes, over the next decade. …
Posted in: Media Releases
Statement on appropriate regulation of Retirement Villages
A series of stories published by the ABC this week highlighted unfair fees, confusing contracts and poor treatment of residents living in retirement villages. Government must act now to protect retirement village residents from exploitation and eviction. …
Posted in: Media Releases, Retirement Housing Advice Service