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Saturday, 13 June 2020

Victoria Fails Social Housing Test

👏 NSW has a plan to provide long-term affordable housing for the rough sleeping homeless who they've temporarily housed during the coronavirus restrictions. https://t.co/VyScgKm6Id Meanwhile in Victoria, people are facing the prospect of returning to the winter streets 😨
— Housing for the Aged Action Group (@HAAGHomeAtLast) June 11, 2020

Homebuilder Scheme Misses The Mark

#auspol https://t.co/PvnDVgPQsd
— Les Scobie (@retvilldotnet) June 10, 2020

Homebuilder Scheme Ignores Social Housing

💩 Morrisons HomeBuilder scheme "isn’t a program to create jobs, it is a way of making people who are reasonably well off richer" https://t.co/UmC2HoOtJH "it might deliver ritzy new kitchens with the latest European appliances, but it won’t help those suffering housing stress. 😡
— Housing for the Aged Action Group (@HAAGHomeAtLast) June 9, 2020

Investor Cash Versus Social Housing

Why does the federal government want to hand out cash to investors and developers buying houses rather than building affordable public housing? We can build our way out of the COVID-19 economic slump, but we have to start from the bottom up https://t.co/6PaNq19lRI #everybodyshome
— Housing for the Aged Action Group (@HAAGHomeAtLast) June 6, 2020

Affordable Housing Crisis Hitting Hard

"Australia's affordable housing crisis is hitting hard with vulnerable seniors and others unable to afford market rents and forced into poor or temporary housing, homelessness and poverty" #auspol #auspol2020 - https://t.co/1QVkJ1Ya6W
— Les Scobie (@retvilldotnet) June 4, 2020

Social Housing Investment Needed

The federal government is being urged to complement its construction sector stimulus package with a social housing investment boost, which @CHIA_News says will create thousands of jobs and help house vulnerable people. https://t.co/dcnHO21oBZ
— Pro Bono News (@ProBonoNews) June 3, 2020

Function of Government

The role of government is to create an environment for commerce to function whilst at the same time protecting retirees and particularly vulnerable retirees from both financial and emotional harm emanating from that function.

The Victorian Retirement Villages Act 1986 provides the environment for commerce to function but fails to fully protect retirees from financial and emotional harm as a result of it.

The Victorian legislative definition of a retirement village in demanding the payment of an 'in-going' amount without the transfer of property ownership is a major contributor to that financial and emotional harm suffered by retirees.