Housing for the Aged Action Group in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Social service

Housing for the Aged Action Group

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9654 7389

Address: Level 1, Ross House, 247-251 Flinders Lane 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.oldertenants.org.au/

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25.01.2022 During the pandemic, health fears and financial pressures converge to trap older Australians with perpetrators - often sons and daughters - leaving them at risk of exploitation and homelessness. https://buff.ly/30eXkEw #endeelderabuse

25.01.2022 In 1933 the Sydney branch of the Workers’ Art Club produced Saga: A Protest In Linocuts, a bound set of 22 artworks. Its stated aim was to present in simple pi...ctorial form a brief outline of the events leading up to the present world-wide economic crisis and the only way out: a solution which will benefit society as a whole, not a minority of the population of the earth who offer fascism and war, with its enrichment for the few. Given the era many of the pieces, as seen here, dealt with unemployment, evictions and the persecution of activists. To find out more about campaigns against poverty and homelessness, past and present, visit this link- https://commonslibrary.org/resources-about-australian-hous/ This page includes more than 20 resources which the Commons Library have assembled that focus on case studies and stories of how communities have organised to secure housing, financial and other support for the unwaged and those on low incomes. We are looking for more so please get in touch with your stories and materials.

25.01.2022 Victoria's Big Housing Build is much needed investment, but accelerates a trend away from Public Housing and towards often more costly, inefficient Community Housing Providers who charge more rent, give tenants less rights, and who cherry pick tenants

24.01.2022 A 'perfect storm' is on the horizon, we need government to step up and give us shelter

23.01.2022 Our report released today looks at the different experiences of older tenants in Public and Community Housing, and reveals significant differences for tenants in exercising their rights. https://www.oldertenants.org.au//report-reveals-inequality #everybodysome

23.01.2022 Even before COVID-19, older women were increasingly likely to be surviving on Newstart Allowance. "We must ensure that those people who could not get paid work even before this crisis hit... are not left behind in entrenched unemployment." https://buff.ly/34fAL3Q #raisetherate!

21.01.2022 Tottenham our dog is stressed from moving to yet another rental house. So we got out his puppy crate and now he is spending his days lying on TOP of it. Life is hard for pets in private rental.

21.01.2022 Housing deprivation and homelessness began with European invasion in 1788 but perhaps these squatters and filmmakers have some solutions https://buff.ly/33u9c6x #everybodyshome

19.01.2022 Perhaps the idea of Community Housing in Australia isn't at all a new thing - Gunditjmara people in Portland have revived the idea and built a modern version of their 7000 year old homes to house a healing centre and memorial

16.01.2022 Policymakers haven’t planned for the inevitable rise in need for social housing from impoverished older private renters. The present system has glaringly failed to provide housing affordable for more than 1/2 of Australia’s low income tenant population. https://buff.ly/2Rqc3aT In the aftermath of COVID we'll need to rethink to repair Australia’s broken housing system

15.01.2022 Hear about the impact of COVID-19 on housing for the most vulnerable people in society, and more importantly what we can be doing about it. Tune in to this webinar to find out more, with Dr Emma Power (University of Western Sydney) and Kate Colvin (Council to Homeless Persons)

15.01.2022 Three (3!) publications hot off the press in time for today' s AGM! You can read them here https://buff.ly/3lPRgeM or message us if you would like the link to join the meeting at 11, all welcome

15.01.2022 Pushing councils to hand over public land to developers is not the only way to fund public housing. And its not the most cost effective way.

14.01.2022 Council Elections are coming up, and there isn't a suburb, town or shire in Victoria that isn't affected by homelessness. Lets make investment in affordable housing an issue across the state! https://buff.ly/2H2c8Ql #everybodyshome

13.01.2022 Tuning in to this podcast now, challenging "the idea that getting older as an LGBTQ+ person necessitates becoming boring". Too right!

09.01.2022 There are two vacant properties for each homeless person in NSW. Why bother with tenants and real estate agents when you can simply make money by letting their property sit empty?

09.01.2022 Victoria Police's targeted harassment against older migrants in public housing must be accounted for https://buff.ly/3i7jfUB #freethe9blocks

08.01.2022 In Victoria we have seen the real health and social benefits of priority social housing for people over 55. Meanwhile in NSW, they also have priority housing, but you have to wait til you're are 80! Tenants' Union of NSW makes the case why this needs to change

08.01.2022 Natural disasters are on the rise due to #climatechange. Its terrifying for us all. But homeowners atleast might have insurance. We are already seeing that renters are the ones left stranded in these disasters.

07.01.2022 When it comes time to retire, the inequality in Australian society couldn't be starker. We've created "a system where most have enough or more than enough to retire on and others get nothing like enough."

07.01.2022 Right across Australia, older people with limited amounts of super are left stranded, unable to afford the private rental market, ineligible for public housing. https://buff.ly/3fJsOv7 #everybodyshome

07.01.2022 Vale Susan Ryan, who dedicated your life to end discrimination against women, and against older people, who understood how affordable housing is essential to end both, a legend of Australian feminism.

06.01.2022 Its a bold plan, but when there's as many empty homes in Melbourne as there are people on the public housing waiting list, it seems like a fair solution

06.01.2022 We hope these younger African Australian's can make a big impact in local government elections. The shockingly bad management of the hard lockdown makes it clear, migrants and public housing residents need more representation in government https://buff.ly/3hUKrFH #LG2020

04.01.2022 Some of us have been working hard to bring you all the latest updates from HAAG in our springtime newsletter https://buff.ly/30f4nNJ So close the facebook feed, put your feet up, and enjoy Older Tenants Voice.

04.01.2022 Great to hear a new Rainbow Door service is opening. - a new telephone Helpline for all LGBTIQA+ people by @switchboard_vic. Join them for the launch event!

02.01.2022 Melbourne has a long history of housing speculation. Before the market crashed in the 1880's, Moreland Road Brunswick was sold to be "A paradise in miniature, verily, verily... Eden resuscitated!"

01.01.2022 We are excited to invite you to the online launch of Out of The Closet, Out of Options: Older LGBTI People at risk of homelessness" https://buff.ly/2F31mJ6 - on October 9th as part of #WorldHomelessnessDay