Parity Articles

Public Housing Redevelopments Impact Older Persons' Health and Wellbeing

This article looks at the impact of the Victorian Government's Public Housing Redevelopment Program on older people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

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Independent Living Units: Underfunded and Misunderstood

A summary of the changing Independent Living Unit sector, written by one of HAAG's retirement housing workers Fiona Waters

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Ageing on the Edge Older Person's Homeless Prevention Project

The Ageing on the Edge Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project is a partnership between Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP). Funded over five years by The Wicking Trust and with principal project leads Jeff Fiedler (HAAG) and Dr Debbie Faulkner (CHURP), the project is addressing the rapidly increasing problem facing large numbers of older people, the majority women, at risk of homelessness in Australia.

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Senator Doug Cameron's Parity Launch Speech

Senator Doug Cameron launched the edition of Parity Magazine June 2018 titled "Older people and homelessness: What Works"

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Responding to Older Persons Homelessness: What Works

HAAG published several articles as part of the June 2018 edition of Parity Journal.

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

 

A Home at Last

By Anne Maher and Shane McGrath - July 2015

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Preventing homelessness for older people from culturally diverse backgrounds

By Gemma White - July 2015

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Opinion piece

By Jeff Feidler - July 2015

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Homelessness is an ageing policy issue

The Challenge of Responding to Elderly Homelessness 

By Dr Maree Peterson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland - July 2015

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