Ageing in Place: Home and Housing for Australia’s Older Renters
Social housing is the most powerful way to keep older people in secure homes, and stop them from going into aged care before they’re ready.
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Reimagining Home
This significant research project by Liz Lennon, from Focussed Solutions, a single older women with experience of poverty, housing stress and homelessness, brings to life a new future of housing options of housing options.
AHURI – Moving, downsizing and housing equity consumption choices of older Australians
This study analyses current geographic mobility and downsizing behaviours among Australians aged over 55, and considers the barriers to, and consequences of downsizing. Retired Australians tend to retain high levels of housing wealth (rising to 49% of assets for homeowners aged 75+) and most choose not to downsize, either by moving to a smaller dwelling […]
AHURI An effective homelessness services system for older Australians
The research project examines a range of issues, including those that make the older population distinctive in terms of homelessness. Read report here
AIHW – Specialist homelessness services annual report 2017–18
The specialist homelessness services 2017–18 web report is the seventh annual report from the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection (SHSC). It describes the characteristics of clients of specialist homelessness services, the services requested, outcomes achieved, and unmet requests for services during 2017–18 View report here
