I am in the process of planning my Churchill Fellowship to visit England, Brussels & the USA to learn what has been effective in establishing models of service integration to more effectively respond to homelessness.
It will be interesting to see the governance models that have been established that allow services from a variety of different funding streams and models to effectively partner and collaborate to ensure that people who are homeless get the best possible access to services that are going to make a difference for ending homelessness.
This blog will be used to share my thoughts and impressions as I am traveling.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Ageing and risk of homelessness
I was in Melbourne yesterday participating in a great conference hosted by Housing for the Aged Action Group Inc, discussing what is becoming a very scary reality. Many older people are finding themselves homeless for the first time primarily due to the failure of the private rental market. Whilst many older people have their needs met through their own home ownership, there is not strategy in place for those who do not own a house, or who are not in public and social housing.
A group has been formed to start lobbying around the need for an older persons' housing strategy that starts to look at how we make the case for better linkages between government programs, housing development and the non government sector to create a system that is able to prevent homelessness for this group where possible.
As things develop, I will post what is happening here.
A group has been formed to start lobbying around the need for an older persons' housing strategy that starts to look at how we make the case for better linkages between government programs, housing development and the non government sector to create a system that is able to prevent homelessness for this group where possible.
As things develop, I will post what is happening here.
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