Who: Council to Homeless Persons Chief Executive Officer Deborah Di Natale; Joal Presincula, who has experienced homelessness
What: Thousands of origami homes being displayed at parliament to show the scale of Victoria’s homelessness crisis
When: Wednesday August 2, 1pm - 2pm
Where: Victorian Parliament House steps, Spring St, Melbourne
Georgie Moore
0477 779 928
Matt Coughlan
0400 561 480
Melbourne, November 28: Building 60,000 new social housing homes, an improved definition of ‘affordable housing’, tackling discrimination in the private rental market, and improving security of tenure are recommendations from the Inquiry into the Rental and Housing Affordability Crisis in Victoria that will help protect older Victorians from homelessness. Housing for the Aged Action Group Executive Officer Fiona York said the final report, which the Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee released today, includes a number of recommendations that, if implemented by government, would help prevent many older people from falling into housing crisis and homelessness. “More and more…
Community Housing Industry Association Victoria is urging the Victorian Government to heed a parliamentary committee’s call for a surge in social housing, as the state grapples with a worsening rental crisis. The ‘inquiry into the rental and housing affordability crisis in Victoria’ recommends the government build an additional 60,000 social housing dwellings over the next decade. CHIA Vic’s chief executive Sarah Toohey said there’s no time to waste in building more social housing in Victoria. “There’s a dire need for more social and affordable housing as a growing number of Victorians live through the horror housing crisis. Right now, more…
The National Rural Health Alliance (the Alliance) will move into the new year with great vigour, with new Board members elected at the 32nd…
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