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.
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