Photography Workshop
13/08/2018
A group of intrepid Women’s Housing Company tenants participated in a photography workshop on location at the Royal Botanic Garden on 7 August.Photographer, Mary Perkins, gave a tutori [...]
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News & Events
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Older Women Retiring Into Poverty In Category - News Date - 22/08/2018 |
Older single women are the fastest growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness and most of them have never been homeless before.
The National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group is today delivering a paper at Parliament House in Canberra - Retiring into Poverty - A National Plan For Change: Increasing Housing Security For Older Women.
This important document provides an outline of the issues facing older women living in housing insecurity or homelessness and identifies changes needed to policies and programs.
Please read the media release here - Working Group calls for a national agenda for action to fight older women’s housing insecurity and homelessness.
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6-12 August is Homelessness Week
07/08/2018
On any given night, more than 116,000 Australians are homeless; that’s one in every 200 people. Most you wouldn’t see or know are homeless, as only 6% actually sleep on the streets.&nbs [...]
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Northern Beaches Social Housing Transfer Program
24/07/2018
Meet and Greet Sessions – August to November 2018The Women’s Housing Company, in partnership with Bridge Housing, is looking forward to taking on the management [...]
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