Goulburn Valley - Hume Regional Program

A housing information service for older people has come to the Goulburn Valley - Hume region, providing information and advice on housing options and practical support for older people at risk of homelessness. Housing for the Aged Action Group is a community organisation that runs the Home at Last service, and has expanded to the region in 2022, thanks to the generosity of the Ian Rollo Currie Foundation. It is now an ongoing program.

If you're in the region and need assistance to find affordable housing, give us a call on 1300 765 178

Latest Updates and Events from the Goulburn Valley - Hume Program

Homes for older people at risk of homelessness in the Goulburn Valley

In 2021, Housing for the Aged Action Group extended its housing information service for older people to the Goulburn Valley region of Central Victoria, providing information and advice on housing options and practical support for older people at risk of homelessness. Despite floods, COVID-19, heatwaves and fires, a small team of local women have assisted over 91 older people at risk of homelessness to find housing. This video tells their story.

Providing evidence at the Inquiry into the Supply of Homes in Regional Victoria

We provided evidence to the Inquiry that,  increasing numbers of older people in regional Victoria do not own their own homes and they find themselves facing the real and frightening prospect of homelessness in older age. Older people in regional Victoria are facing a significant and growing housing crisis that has serious impacts on their health and
wellbeing, and this limits their ability to access aged care supports – it is very difficult to be able to access in-home care if you do not have a stable house. We desperately need more homes for low-income older Victorians and the best way to do that is by investing in public and community housing and low-cost retirement housing. 

Read the full transcript of evidence here

Rushworth & District Aged Care Services Expo

10 Apr 2025

Get connected with Aged Care, secure housing, and other supports in the Rushworth community at the Rushworth & District Aged Care Services Expo!

Echuca Info Session

16 Jun 2025

We're back at Echuca Neighbourhood House sharing housing HAAG information with older people living in insecure housing or homeless in the local community.

Rushworth Community Centre

23 Jun 2025

Our regional workers Teresa, Nat and Anne are at Rushworth Community Centre 67 High Street, Rushworth Victoria, 3612

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Stories from the Valley

Homeless not hopeless

Sue is 74 years old and became homeless when her daughter asked her to leave her property in NSW. She moved to Victoria to stay with a friend, who helped her to connect with the local crisis homelessness service, Beyond Housing. She was referred into our program by Beyond Housing Seymour.

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Glen from the Goulburn Valley

In January this year we received a referral from Beyond Housing in Seymour. Glen had moved back to Victoria to live with family after been a victim of a home invasion and serious assault in public housing in NSW. Glen was living in a caravan on a family member’s property at Seymour but he had been asked him to leave, and he was going to start camping by the river.

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A man and his dog

David was camping with his dog Timmy on the Murray River near Cobram. He had been on the priority housing waiting list for 5 years. David said he had contacted a crisis housing access point several times but he was told there was no housing.

He’d heard about a Housing Information session organized by HAAG at the Cobram Community Centre in February, and decided to come along!

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