Re imagining Home Research Report
The author Liz Lennon hopes that older single women reading this will understand an critical fact. This is that systemic and political issues and failures are what has placed them in poverty, housing stress...
Women
Women’s Housing Needs in Regional Australia: Summary Report
From the Chair of YWCA National Housing: On behalf of YWCA National Housing and with the support of YWCA Australia, I am proud to present this report ‘Women’s Housing Needs in Regional...
Resetting Policies to End Family Homelessness
Abstract Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless...
Australia should brace itself for a tsunami of homeless women over the next 20 years
If a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its elderly and vulnerable, Australia is set to fall shamefully short. Women aged over 50 are the fastest growing group of people at risk of...
Homelessness has grown by 31% for women aged 55 & older
The number of women aged 55 and over who experience homelessness in Australia has grown by 31% between 2011 and 2016. This trend is expected to continue unless social housing provision is expanded, given the...
Older Womens Housing Program Tackles Growing Crises
In recent years, we have seen an unprecedented number of women facing housing insecurity (even homelessness) for the first time when they are older. Between 2011 and 2016 there was a 31 per cent increase in...
Fast Facts: Impacts of family domestic family violence
Following the release of the AIHW report Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia, ANROWS has compiled some of the significant data sets into a fact sheet for easy reference. The AIHW report...
Innovative models in addressing violence against Indigenous women: Final report
Foregrounding the perspective of Aboriginal people who work within the family violence space or have had experience of family violence, this report is based on qualitative research in three sites in Australia:...
Meta-evaluation of existing interagency partnerships, collaboration, coordination and/or integrated interventions and service responses to violence against women: Final report
This research project reviewed and analysed data to identify key program elements, policy contexts and learnings from the implementation of integrated responses in all Australian...
“Whatever it takes”: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services: Final report
“Whatever it takes”: Access for women with disabilities to domestic and family violence services aims to help tertiary response services to respond effectively to the needs of women with disabilities. It...