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Housing Related Challenges for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
Older people from CALD backgrounds make up around 25 per cent of all older people in Australia. Though older CALD communities face many of the same barriers to housing experienced by the older population as a whole, such as inappropriate, insecure and unaffordable housing, they are also more likely to encounter additional challenges.
Gemma White
2018
Themes:
CALD Communites

Take a walk around the Social Bite village for homeless people
This is the Social Bite Village, in Granton, Edinburgh, the result of a sustained fundraising and awareness drive with the lofty aim of bringing an end to homelessness at the heart of its ethos. The emphasis is on the establishment of a community, with project leaders Social Bite partnering with homeless charity Cyrenians.
Paul English
2018
Themes:
Future housing solutions, Housing First, Co-housing, Community

The disturbing truth you need to know about women's homelessness
Christine is a recently retired and now homeless mature age woman who has, like so many other retired professional women, little to no prospect of obtaining public or community housing, or being able to afford market price rentals. She is the convenor of the Housing Alternatives self-help action group on Facebook and the creator of the Housing Alternatives web site,
2018
Themes:
Definition of 'at risk of homelessness', Housing Affordability, Older Women, Pathways into homelessness, Policy, Housing insecurity, Rental Stress, Single people & housing stress

Ageing with no address
This presentation looks at trends in homelessness for the Australian population aged 55 years and over, using Census data from 2006, 2011 and 2016.
Debbie Faulkner, Jeff Fiedler
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Poverty & homelessness, Policy, Private Rental, Rental Stress, Social Housing

Global Living - Student, Senior Housing & Multifamily Occupier Demands

This report is about demand for living from different generations. We have focused primarily on two: the young and the elderly. They are shaping demand for some of the industry’s fastest growing asset classes. The market is now responding to under-served occupier groups by offering new and hybrid models that challenge conventional asset classes.
Savills World Research
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Future housing solutions, Housing Affordability, Co-housing

Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project
The Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project is a partnership between Housing for the Aged Action Group HAAG) and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP). Funded over five years by The Wicking Trust and with principal project leads Jeff Fiedler (HAAG) and Dr Debbie Faulkner (CHURP), the project is addressing the rapidly increasi
Jeff Fiedler, Debbie Faulkner
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Older Women, Pathways into homelessness

Study protocol: healthy urban living and ageing in place (HULAP): an international, mixed methods study examining the associations between physical activity, built and social environments for older adults the UK and Brazil
The ability to ‘age in place’ is dependent on a range of inter-personal, social and built environment attributes, with the latter being a key area for potential intervention. There is an emerging body of evidence that indicates the type of built environment features that may best support age friendly communities.
Geraint Elli, Ruth Hunter, Adriano Hino, Claire Cleland, Sara Ferguson, Brendan Murtagh, Ciro Anez, Sara Melo, Mark Tully, Frank Kee, Urmi Sengupta, Rodrigo Reis
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Urban Planning, Health

Women over 55 years now the fastest growing homeless people in Australia
The problems of homelessness are largely systemic and cannot be solved by community goodness alone. The Housing All Australians strategy shows how the private sector, working with the community sector, can provide immediate short-term shelter in buildings that are vacant pending planning & development process.
Rob Pradolin
2018
Themes:
Older Women, Rental Stress, Poverty & homelessness, Future housing solutions

Ageing with Choice: Future directions for seniors housing 2019–2024
The western Australian Government's Ageing with Choice document provides direction over the next five years to improve housing choice and outcomes for older Western Australians. Ageing with Choice recognises that everyone ages differently. Housing needs in older age are driven by changes in health, financial or family circumstances, rather than numerical age.
Department of Communities, Government of Western Australia"
2018
Themes:
Ageing Population, Ageing-in-Place, Affordable Housing, Lifetime Neighbourhoods, Community, Policy

The most rapidly growing group of homeless Australians – it’s not who you expect
According to analysis of Census data by the Equality Rights Alliance, between 2011 and 2016 the number of homeless people in Australia rose from more than 102,000 people to more than 116,000. That’s an increase of nearly 14 percent. However, during this same period the number of homeless women over 55 years old increased by 31 percent.
Ginger Gorman
2018
Themes:
Older Women

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