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Making home: Older women at risk of homelessness

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Women over the age of 55 are the fastest growing cohort of homeless in Australia and current research estimates that more than 400,000 women over the age of 45 are at risk of homelessness.

Women who find themselves at risk of homelessness in later life have often led productive lives and have had conventional housing histories. What factors have placed them at risk of homelessness and what can we do to help?

This discussion will address these questions from a personal, social and human rights perspective. It will unpack the issues and policies that have created this crisis and outline pathways for advocacy and action.

Following the discussion please join us for afternoon tea. We’d love to extend this conversation with you.

For more information:

Australian Human Rights Commission: Age Discrimination

Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG)

 

How you can help:

HAAG Federal Election Advocacy Toolkit

This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2022.

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Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.