Call for a national approach to ensure secure housing for seniors

Published 27th June 2018

Australia needs a national strategy to increase affordable housing supply, better regulate the private rental market and provide support services that can help older people at risk of homelessness, a housing advocate tells Australian Ageing Agenda. The insecure and expensive private rental market along with decreasing levels of home ownership, increasing retiree mortgage debt and reductions in public housing funding are increasingly putting more seniors at risk of homelessness. For more information about this article, please click here.