Australia
“It’s a Great Idea for Other People”: Cohousing as a Housing Option for Older Australians
Older Australians currently face housing challenges including supply, accessibility, affordability, security of tenure and isolation.
This article examines the potential for cohousing to address these challenges. In interviews, professionals indicated that cohousing promises benefits for older people, but identified financial and planning barriers.
2018
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Where's the Map? Navigating Australia's Housing and Aged Care Systems
Old age is when a lifetime of inequality, compounded and multiplied from life event to life event, can be in its starkest relief. Some inequality comes in later in life, following adverse life events such as divorce or redundancy.
2018
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Things to consider when working with older women who are experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness
This document outlines issues for practitioners and service providers to consider when working with older women who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. It is targeted primarily at practitioners and service providers who are not experienced with,
or specialists, in providing services to older women experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.
2018
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The many costs of homelessness
Whether short or long-term, homelessness is one of the most severe forms of disadvantage and social exclusion that a person can experience
2018
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For Australians to have the choice of growing older at home, here is what needs to change
The population of people aged 65 and over in Australia is projected to grow from 3.7 million to 8.7 million by 2056. Cities, towns and housing need to be designed to help people stay at home as they age.
Ageing in place isn’t just about ageing at home.
2018
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Amplify Insights: Housing Affordability and Homelessness
This report assembles the evidence, from official statistics, academic research, and other publicly available information about the lived experience of homelessness and housing affordability in Australia.
2018
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Social housing as infrastructure: an investment pathway
Ensuring necessary and appropriate levels of social housing investment begins with a well-evidenced understanding of the scale, type and location of need and secondly, an accurate understanding of the cost of procuring appropriate dwellings in the right locations.
2018
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The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Public perceptions of quality and affordability
This report examines the national state of the private rental system in Australia. While growing in size, it has also changed in terms of composition.
2018
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Ticking Time Bomb Of Housing For Older People Needs Addressing In State Budget
COTA SA, the peak advocacy body for older people in South Australia, is urging the Liberal Government to make a commitment to address escalating housing stress and homelessness among older South Australians in its 2018/19 State Budget.
The housing ‘ticking time bomb' is one of a number of issues identified that COTA SA has included recommendations for in its 2018 State Budget Submission, del
2018
The Adequacy of the Age Pension in Australia: An assessment of pensioner living standards
This Australian report examines the adequacy of the Age Pension both qualitatively, through focus groups and town meetings, and quantitatively, through analysis of social survey data. Methodology included quantitative analysis provided by the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey which included 9,000 households and 25,000 individuals.
2018
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