|
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.
Related News & Events:
Ministerial Media Event with WHC
05/08/2022
For Homelessness Week 2022, it was great to highlight older women's homelessness and speak about our new housing in Peakhurst. The Peakhurst property is the second to be completed in a program [...]
Your Say Day
20/07/2022
We held our annual Your Say Day this week, an event designed to connect with our tenants and co-create solutions to support our community's well-being. A great day with lots of ideas. [...]
Director Site Visit
15/07/2022
Our Homelessness Support Services Team spent a morning with WHC Directors and CEO, sharing stories on the difference we make to women’s lives through sound service provision, along with provi [...]