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Connections Issue 4

Issue 4 looks at Park/Village Rules and what the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 states in relation to making and changing park/village rules.

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About 25 per cent of Australians now rent privately, compared to 18 per cent in 1994-95. They are renting for longer and they are getting older. But amid our property extravaganza, government policies effectively treat renters as second-class citizens.

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Suzy Freeman-Greene is a senior writer at The Age.

image by Dean Osland the Age.

Realities of Being a Renter in Later Life

2014

By Naomi Gebert and Paola Posso, RMIT School of Social Work

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March / Autumn 2014

Autumn / March 2014 newsletter Older Tenants' Voice ( 487 KB)

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HAAG Annual General Meeting 2014

13 Nov 2014

The Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 13th November. Our new Committe of managment was elected...

The Poverty Trap

Letter by Dalene Salisbury, Housing for the Aged Action Group.

the Age, Tuesday 25 March 2014

"Providing more equity in the allowances should not have the effect of driving older people into further poverty. Our group's Home at Last service hears from thousands of older people who are paying, on average, 60 to 70 per cent of their age pension on private market rent. Many do not use their heating, cut back on food and are ''one eviction notice'' away from homelessness".

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Read the letter in full at the Age

HAAG General Meeting

11 Sep 2014

A General Meeting for HAAG members was held on Thursday 11th September 2014.

Surviving or Thriving?

5 Jun 2014

Thursday 5th June 2014.

The 'Surviving or Thriving?' Forum was organised to provide information on the current state of older persons housing and the needs of older people who are at risk of homelessness. A number of worrying trends are developing that require urgent action by governments: Significant increases in older people just surviving in the private rental market; no new affordable housing supply after the completion of Nation Building funds; poor connections between older persons housing needs and aged care services in the home; and only 1% of homelessness service funds directed to the needs of a vulnerable ageing population.