Following on from the success of the At Risk forum in 2021 which mobilised hundreds of older people across the country to take action and demand change from their federal politicians, Housing for the Aged Action Group and the National Alliance of Seniors for Housing are taking the next steps to bring the campaigns demands to the federal election. We can’t afford another three years of inaction while older people are the fastest growing group experiencing homelessness in this country.
LGBTI housing - National Housing Conference
9 Mar 2022
We hear from the LGBTI housing panel at the National Housing Conference, held in Melbourne 3-5 March 2022, including Andrew Rogers.
HAAG supports an explicit objective in the regulatory system to protect and safeguard the interests of current, prospective and future tenants. We note that there is tension between the practical application of putting “tenants in the centre” in the broader context of a housing policy direction focussed on transfer of stock and redevelopment of public housing. While this independent review of social housing regulation is occurring, Homes Victoria is simultaneously relocating existing public housing tenants from their homes under the public housing renewal program. Those tenants are not “at the centre” of this decision, and the practical aim of applying this approach is questionable in a context where tenants feel powerless in the face of the decisions made by government to move them out of their communities and into an uncertain future.
Jennie was referred to our Retirement Housing Advice Service, as she had had huge crowds of ants crawling into her unit for almost 12 months and the village where she lived had consistently been unresponsive to this pest infestation.
Join Guest Orator, Yumi Stynes, and FUSE Curator-in-Residence, Queen Acknowledgements, for a dual celebration: the work of social justice advocate, Molly Hadfield OAM, and the opening of FUSE Autumn 2022. Held annually, The Oration celebrates the work of grassroots campaigner and HAAG founder, Molly Hadfield OAM.
This event will bring together a round table discussion with key figures who are working to address the issue of homelessness across many fields in Australia. The aim is to pinpoint practical strategies and alliances that will move forward to solutions grounded in lived experience.
This discussion at MPavillion will address the questions of what factors have placed older women at risk of homelessness, and what can we do to help. It will unpack the issues and policies that have created this crisis and outline pathways for advocacy and action.
Inspiring talks to #breakthebias by Writer & Comedian Justine Sless, Women Working Together, Random Acts of Exercise and Housing for the Aged Action Group.
With over 400,000 women over the age of 45 at risk of homelessness, the provision of affordable, long-term housing for women is vital to prevent even more older women from falling into homelessness. On the other hand, younger women are finding it more difficult to secure a foothold in the Australian dream of owning a home.
This situation has to change, and with the upcoming federal election, now is the time to understand the connection between housing and gender equality; and why without affordable, long-term housing, women will continue to lag behind.
Renewal or Ruin?: Barack Beaconsfield Public Housing
23 Feb 2022
Fiona talks to Margaret Kelly, long-time public housing resident of Barack Beaconsfield estate in Port Melbourne which has recently and unexpectedly been slated for "renewal" by the State Government. Shocked residents are fighting back about what they see as the destruction of their close-knit community to make way for gentrification of the area.
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."