Loud, Proud and Housed LGBTIQA+ Housing Info in Eltham

14 May 2024

HAAG’s LGBTIQA+ community educators are hosting this event for older community members to find out about housing and homelessness, and where to go for help. 

Corio Library Housing Information Session

15 May 2024

Do you worry about your housing situation and how you can make ends meet? Then come along to this information session at Corio Library to find out how people aged 50+ can access affordable housing.

Older Tenants Voice Autumn 2024

Our first edition for 2024 is packed with news and photos from all of HAAG's activities, member news, and a new book review column.

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Overcoming bullies in Retirement Villages

Mary* is a HAAG member living in a retirement village in the west of Melbourne. She’s lived there since 2018, and enjoyed a couple of good years there before a new manager named Dean* started there in late 2019. Mary soon noticed tensions developing between her and Dean, but within a year these had erupted into outright harassment and bullying by the manager.

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What's hotter than Taylor Swift? Housing Justice

27 Mar 2024
Shane and Fiona speak to Sabrina Clarke, project worker for Better Renting, about their newly released report into the heat and humidiity of rental properties across australia. We chat about what their research demonstrated and the need for better rental standards.  Read the report and find out more on their website https://www.betterrenting.org.au/
Listen in on 3cr.org.au

August General Meeting

15 Aug 2024

Our regular August General Meeting with bonus soup served by staff.

May General Meeting

16 May 2024

Join our May General meeting celebrating Volunteer Week and sharing our video “Perspectives on the Housing Crisis”

HAAG & HOW at the Gold Coast Housing Symposium

The Gold Coast Homelessness Symposium is an event put on by the Gold Coast Homelessness network, an active group of service providers and individuals who are working towards solutions for the housing crisis in their region. In March 2024, organisers invited Fiona York as key note speaker at their symposium "Housing older Australians – Now and into the future", where she presented the data from HAAG's Ageing in a housing crisis report.

Ageing On The Edge NSW Coalition Meeting March 2024

At the latest gathering of the Ageing on Edge NSW Coalition we heard from Alex Greenwich MP, Minister Rose Jackson and Rental Commissioner Trina Jones. The campaign is building support for our key targets of creating a specialist housing support service for older people,  lowering the priority age for priority housing access from 80 years, and building more Public and Community housing.

 

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