About Us
Housing for the Aged Action Group offers free, confidential and quality advice to older people who need information and support about accommodation issues or have a housing problem.
There are 4 main services offered:
• Housing Options
• Private Renters Assistance
• Outreach Care & Housing
• Retirement Housing Advice and Support
Click > here to download Services brochure 230KB
Click > here to download and view the Aims and Objectives of HAAG 364 KB
HAAG receives funding from Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing to provide these services to older people in the Victorian Community.
Funding News
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
One of our vital services is our outreach support service for frail older people who are in housing difficulty. Called the Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) Service, this funding allows us to help older people who are being evicted from private rental housing to be able to access affordabel housing. while we have been providing this service for nearly 15 years, the funding has remained static over that period. From July 1 2009 our funding for this program has been increased by 25% and has enabled us to employ another ACHA worker.
Consumer Affairs Victoria
Consumer Affairs Victoria has provided funding to HAAG for a new position that will focus on the needs of older poeple living in retirement housing with a focus on the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged residents if retirement villages. This program commenced as a 12 month pilot and is now an ongoing project for two years from July 2010. We aim to improve resident's knowledge of their rights and support them to take action when required.
Read more about this service on our > Services page.
HAAG is the recipient of generous funding from many philanthropic organisations as detailed below.
Myer Foundation Commemorative Grant
We have been provided a Commemorative Grant to celebrate 75 years of the Sidney Myer Fund and 50 years of The Myer Foundation. Grants have been provided to 37 Australian non-profit organisations in recognition of their work. The HAAG Project is to provide a better service to our members, as well as provide more information to the broader Victorian community about older persons housing issues and to provide more assistnace to older people in need. This will include more regular newsletters, suburban and country forums, general meetings, getting out to health and aged care services that assist older people so that we can provide them with housing information and also improve our Housing Options Service.
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation
Our thanks and appreciation to the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust for their grants of $10,000 each to assist with our client work and community education.
Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation
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.
Mornington Peninsula Shire
The Caravan Parks forum which was held on Thursday 16 October 2008 recieved generous funding from the Mornington Peninsula Shire.
William Angliss Charitable Fund
United Way Melbourne
At the end of 2009 United Way Melbourne allocated a grant of $6,000 for relocation costs of clients under the Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged (ACHA) program.
In 2008 United Way Melbourne provided us with a grant of $5,000 for the provision of white goods.
The funds have been made available throught the generous corportate partners and their staff who have contributed to the United Way Melbourne Community Chest.
Microsoft
Housing for the Aged Action Group has been the recipient of donated software from Microsoft in 2010. Through a partnership with Donortec, MIcrosoft has provided HAAG access to software that is current, up to date and widely used.
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