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07/09/2021
The Women's Housing Company is going through an exciting phase of growth, resulting in various newly created positions to support the organisation’s expansion. To find out more about thes [...]
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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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Women and Homelessness – The Difference We Make
02/08/2021
The Women’s Housing Company released a video on Women and Homelessness, featuring some of our clients and staff. This is particularly timely in the context of Homelessness Week 2021. This vid [...]
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ABC Life Matters – Dealing with Insecure Housing While Ageing
12/07/2021
In July, Debbie Georgopoulos (CEO, WHC), along with Dr Debbie Faulkner spoke about women’s homelessness on ABC Life Matters. Listeners from around the country called in, sharing their thought [...]
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