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We all need secure and affordable housing to be safe and healthy as we age. But increasingly, older people cannot afford to rent a home, and risk becoming homelessness. That’s why HAAG stands up for the rights of older people, whether they are homeless, live in private rental, public or community housing, retirement housing, or have a mortgage. Membership is free and it’s the best way to support, keep in touch and get involved with HAAG in our fight for housing justice.

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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 as a result of cumulative and persistent disadvantage and have one or more age-related conditions. While these people are not aged 65+, they require access to aged care services earlier than the rest of the population. Many of our clients are not eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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 enough’ to have sufficient income or assets to secure housing, both now and as they age.

Read the infographic summary

Read the full report

Read a round up of the recent media exposés into Retirement Housing, hear from residents at the Flemington Public Housing estate about their views on the State Labor Governments plan to demolish their towers, see photos and reports from all our recent events, and find out how you can get involved in one of of our working groups or campaigns. All this and more in the latest Older Tenants Voice

HAAG makes a number of recommendations to ensure the 'Plan for Victoria' addresses the future needs of older people to have access to safe, secure and affordable housing.

Read our submission

Data shows that over the last ten years, housing circumstances for older people in Victoria have gotten worse. We need these measures to prevent more older people from experiencing homelessness.

Read our recommendations

HAAG welcomes the opportunity to provide input into National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024. We appreciate Senator David Pocock, Kylea Tink MP and other members for their efforts bring this Bill forward and echo the support from the community sector organisations. Among other things, the submission below outlines the housing and homelessness related challenges of older people and the need to specifically recognise their needs.

Read the submission here

HAAG’s recent research has found that over the last ten years, the housing circumstances for older Queenslanders is getting worse. Read our policy recommendations and download our guide to meeting with your candidates and MP's

Our winter edition of Older Tenant's Voice 

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