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Ageing with no address: Session at National Homelessness Conference

6 Aug 2018

Ageing on the Edge: Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project is participating in a session at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institue National Homelessness Conference to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Call for members of a new National Older Persons Housing Network

Ageing on the Edge is seeking to form a national network of older people who are interested in being involved in taking action to get more help and housing for older people who don’t have a secure and affordable home in retirement.

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Ageing on the Edge New South Wales Forum Terms of Reference

The Ageing on the Edge NSW Forum has developed from the Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project Reference Group. The Forum was convened in May 2018 to seek implementation of the key recommendations in the report, determine other key housing issues that need to be addressed for older people in NSW and work collaboratively towards achieving the Forum’s aims.

Retirement Housing - Making your Complaint Count Forum

16 May 2018

HAAG National Action Project in National Housing Journal

The Ageing on the Edge - Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project is extending HAAG’s work across Australia. In response to rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people, the project aims to raise awareness and improve services and housing for older people at risk of homelessness. The project made it into the National Housing Conference edition of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) journal Housing Works. Read the full article here

 

Ageing on the Edge- The Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project

Australian Housing Research Institue journal-Housing Works- has published an article on HAAG's national project, the report on NSW and Home at Last. Read it here

 

General Meeting and Film Screening

22 Feb 2018

Our first General Meeting for the year will feature:

  • Ageing on the Edge Around Australia - presenting the latest findings from our national research into older people and homelessness
  • Older Women Lost in Housing - A short video documentary featuring Penny Leimhuis.
  • Meet our New Retirement Housing Team - hear how you can get involved
  • Hands off Public Housing! - website launch and hear the latest from the campaign

When: 11am - 1pm, Thursday the 22nd of February

Where: Level 4, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne.

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HAAG makes submission to National Inquiry

HAAG has made a submission to the Inquiry into the Treasury Laws Amendment  to the The National Housing and Homelessness Agreement Bill. The bill presents the Australian government with an opportunity to develop a national housing policy that addresses increasing need for secure affordable housing.

Submissions

HAAG's Submission to: Senate Economics Legislation Committee Treasury Laws Amendment (National Housing and Homelessness Agreement) Bill 2017

This submission focuses on the need for the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement Bill to acknowledge the dire circumstances facing an increasing ageing population that is facing a future of housing hardship due to successive government policies that have focused on private rental subsidies in Commonwealth Rent Assistance rather than much needed capital expenditure on public and community housing. This has created a long-term need for investment in public and community housing but also urgently put in place specialist early intervention homelessness support services to assist the thousands of older people experiencing hardship and at risk of homelessness in the private rental market.

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Ageing on the Edge in NSW - A State of Crisis for Older Renters Forum

5 Dec 2017

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