Victorian Campaign Updates

Based in Melbourne, HAAG campaigns for real investment in Public and Community Housing, better regulation of retirement and private rental housing, and better support for older people to be able to access safe, secure and affordable housing across the state.

Action Updates

Priced Out, Run Down: Older Australians in unaffordable and poor-condition housing

This report by Swinburne University of Technology, commissioned by Housing for the Aged Action Group, explores the multiple, often overlapping forms of housing precarity experienced by mid- life and older people in Australia, focusing on private renter households and mortgaged households. The report combines measures of housing affordability stress and housing quality and conditions, offering a new lens on multidimensional precarity for ageing Australians.

Read the full report

Read the summary with Federal recommendations

Read the summary with Victorian recommendations

Victorian Pre-budget Submission 2026-2027

HAAG's pre-budget submission calls on the Victorian Government to further invest in our housing support and early intervention services, build Public and Community housing with some set aside for older people, revitalise the ILU sector and pilot shared equity housing schemes for older people.

Read our pre-budget submission

Not just unfair, unlawful: VCAT rules against village charging Deferred Management Fees

Housing for the Aged Action Group welcomes VCAT's decision which found that the Residential Tenancies Act prevented a land lease village from charging Deferred Management Fees (DMFs). DMFs are a common kind of exit fee charged across several types of retirement housing, often costing departing residents or their families tens of thousands of dollars or more.

Consultation on the proposed community housing development for women and children in Rosebud

Housing for the Aged Action Group strongly supports the Council’s proposal to lease land for community housing in Rosebud. We commend Mornington Peninsula Shire for its vision to provide safe, stable, and affordable medium-term housing for low-income women and their children, as well as women aged 55 and over at risk of homelessness. Community housing provides vital affordable and stable housing that older people desperately need.

Read our submission here

Victorian Retirement laws finally pass

Housing for the Aged Action Group welcomes the passing of new Retirement laws after a five year consultation period and many more years of advocacy from residents. The new laws include significant changes that will improve the day-to-day life of residents, such as a mandatory code of conduct for operators, standardized contracts for new residents, limits on renovation costs, fairer rules about allocating capital gain, and greater transparency and clarity about fees. 

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