Women over 50 Homelessness Taskforce
Housing Choices SA resident Sandra has spent the last 6 months drawing on her lived experience of homelessness as a member of the South Australian government’s Housing Security for Older Women Taskforce.
accommodation service Catherine House before finding her forever home with Housing Choices.
The taskforce brings together a range of lived experience, expertise, disciplines, networks, and community to create change. Final recommendations are expected to be completed in the next few months. “I want to be part of making a difference and seeing for myself firsthand how it is going to look and work effectively.” For more information on the Taskforce, please visit: housing.sa.gov.au/other_ projects/housing-security- for-older-women-taskforce
Sandra is part of a diverse group of women using their own personal insights with homelessness to co-design an action plan and come up with new ways to fix these issues. “We all have the same goal in mind and that’s getting to the crux of the issues that aren’t working.” “I’ve seen so much progress in our taskforce meetings. It’s exhilarating to know we can actually make a difference.”
Women aged 55 years and over are one of the
fastest growing populations experiencing homelessness in Australia, with older women particularly vulnerable to
housing insecurity. Sandra experienced homelessness and was supported by crisis
Below: Sandra in her bright and cheerful apartment.
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