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Mary (Molly) Hadfield OAM
inspires our struggle to ensure the right of all Victorians to a decent home.

Go to Molly's Page
Older Tenants Housing Charter


Raise the Roof for the latest views
next time & date for HAAG
every 4th Wednesday
on Radio 3CR 855 kHs AM

Wednesday 22 July at 6pm
Wednesday 26 August at 6pm

855 kHs AM radio also listen to 3CR's City Limits 9 - 10am every 3rd Wednesday

Wednesday July 15
Wednesday August 19




Shattered dreams & poverty traps

Horror Housing page for case studies & photos of why specialist support is required for vulnerable older persons to overcome their reluctance to access services that will achieve adequate housing.



Go to Archives to find previous
important reports & issues

Public Housing Land Grab!
Minister for Housing gives developers prime inner city land while public tenants are squeezed out...
a photo tells the story...

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A Grant of $10,000 from The Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund received early September 2007.
Thanks for supporting us to achieve our goals!
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Public Housing in private hands?
I doubt that will solve the housing crisis, but someone's mates will make big bucks.

Anne Sgro, Coburg North

The Age 30 July 2007

 

Living in Limbo
Caravan & Residential Parks Report

Introduction & Summary
For a full copy Contact HAAG

Contradiction in Government Policy
Health, Aged Care and Housing
110Kb
Urgent Review Needed
Village Life Debacle
38Kb

Homeless Women Updated

Caravan & Residental Parks
August 2007 update

Happy News is possible at a time when finding ANY housing seems impossible...

 
Caravan & Residential Parks Residents' Working Group NEXT MEETING DATE: Monday 6th July Click here for details


Options paper: Tenancy policy framework for residential parks
provides an opportunity for park operators, residents, advocacy groups and other interested stakeholders to contribute to improving the legal framework for tenancy arrangements in residential parks.

Over the past 10 years, residential parks have emerged as an important form of long term accommodation, particularly for retirees and pensioners. With these new forms of accommodation, issues arise which may not be adequately addressed by the existing legislative framework.

This Paper sets out a series of options to address the following issues:

  • security of tenure
  • internal dispute resolution
  • resident participation in decision making
  • conractual issues relating to resale and disclosure conditions
  • deferred management fees
  • resale arrangements
  • park rules
  • rent increases
  • capital replacement
  • energy charges
  • information disclosure, and
  • repairs and maintenance.

Click here for full report

If you would like to respond to this Options Paper, written submissions are due by 10 July 2009. Please send your submissions to: By Post: "Residential Parks" Consumer Affairs Victoria, GPO Box 123, Melbourne 3001 or By email: resparks(at)justice.vic.gov.au

Congratulations to the HAAG working group, CARPRA - Caravan and Residential Park Residents Association - for their valuable contributions.



For the month of June, Housing for the Aged had a window display in Ross House, Flinders Lane highlighting the Options paper: Tenancy policy framework for residential parks.




Click here to download latest newsletter Winter 2009



Older People Need a Special Housing Plan
Read an article by Jeff Fiedler,
Tenancy Advice and Policy Worker at HAAG. This article was printed in Parity (produced by Council to Homeless Persons) May 2009

Click here to read the article in full



Caravan Parks or Villages?
A forum was held on 16 October 2008
at ACMI. Report available here.

 


Our thanks and appreciation to the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust for their grants of $10,000 to assist with our client work and community education.
We also received an additional grant of $3,000 from the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation during their “85 Days of Giving” program. HAAG was nominated by a number of our members, clients and other community workers who consider our work for the community to be of great merit. The money will be used to assist our ACHA clients to keep their current housing or move to new accommodation. Thanks to all those who nominated us.


Our AGM was held on October 9
with lots of people and optimism in spite of funding problems... pics here




While HAAG lacks sufficient capital resources, our workers and volunteers continue to fill a vital, national, regional & local role in placing older person's housing on the political agenda.
HAAG has achieved this for the past 25 years!
We continue to publicize the plight of older people suffering terrible housing stress.
Response to the Commonwealth Government Green Paper "Which Way Home?"
August 2008

(2.44Mb)

Ageing in Place? F
The impact of the housing crisis on older people in the private rental market
A forum was held 18 June 2008 .. over 100 people attended .. our 4 tenant speakers were excellent & moved many people to tears about their experiences in private rental accommodation
A terrible & ongoing CRISIS

for older people on low income
who are caught in the poverty trap
of private rental housing!!!
Jeff Fiedler, who is HAAG's worker funded by Consumer Affairs Victoria reports on his presentation to the National Housing Conference on 22 February 2008.
Also other presentations of note
are included in this .pdf file.
Click here for a recent, easy to read exposure of this seemingly impossible situation
that any one of us could face ...

ONLY the RICH get housing without climbing and falling off a very steep ladder... see the parliament cartoon!
Housing Justice for the Aged
Manifesto 2007
Draft letter to Prime Minister

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a roof for the rich, scorn for the aged
living rough article
living rough letter


Go to the Homeless Women page & see some answers to the questions posed above...