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Trapped inside: Why social-housing apartments need an urgent revamp
A redesign and renovation of social-housing apartments across Australian cities is desperately needed to ensure older women with mobility issues are not trapped inside their homes.
During this Covid-19 isolation period, it has become apparent how inappropriate some social housing has become for older and disabled women.
2020
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Women's Housing Needs in Regional Australia
This report outlines key housing needs and challenges for women through national research undertaken across regional Australia. It offers new knowledge and insights that are relevant for policy and key decision makers across all levels of government, community housing providers, researchers and the private sector.
2020
Home for Good: Improving the Private Rental Market for Older Australians
Once considered a short-term housing option primarily for young adults, the private rental housing sector now accommodates 27 per cent of all households in Australia, with residents renting for much longer periods than in previous decades.
With diverse housing types covering a geographical range from urban to rural, the private rental sector can work well for the 6.3 million renters who can affor
2020
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Effective downsizing options for older Australians
Downsizing—commonly defined as the act of older people moving to a dwelling with fewer bedrooms, a smaller land area and a lower value is viewed by Government as a way to address affordability and use the housing stock more efficiently.
2020
Home for Good: Social Housing for an Ageing Population
In this policy brief, we turn our attention to Australia’s social housing sector.
2020
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South Australia praised for supporting the homeless during coronavirus pandemic but long-term solution needed
Nearly 400 people — including rough sleepers — have been housed in hotels and motels across Adelaide since the Covid19 pandemic began.
2020
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Rental Housing for an Ageing Population
In our latest Inquiry, we have turned our attention to rental housing for older people, both now and in the decades to come. We wanted to find out how many homes for rent are likely to be needed over the next 20 years or so, what they should be like and who might provide them.
Today only 22% of those over 65 are tenants (private or social). But this will change.
2019
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Women over 55 are Australia's fastest growing group of homeless
An introduction service for flatmates, converting family homes into partly self-contained apartments and building community-funded homeless shelters are among new attempts to help older Australian women find secure housing.
Women over 55 are the fastest growing group of homeless people in Australia, though men and younger people are much more likely to be homeless, 2016 census data shows.
2019
Women and Housing Policy (APR 2019)
Women’s economic and other inequality creates disadvantage in accessing housing, including housing insecurity and homelessness.
Women’s disadvantage occurs in the context of an Australian housing market characterised by a lack of affordable rental housing, together with tightly targeted social housing with long waiting lists.
This has led to the emergence of a cohort of people on low incomes
2019
Homeless for the First Time in Later Life: Uncovering More Than One Pathway
Increasingly, researchers have recognized the heterogeneity with the growing population of older homeless adults in Canada. However, scant research has considered the complex pathways into first-time homelessness from the perspective of older adults themselves.
2019
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."