Support service helping older women navigate the ups and downs of housing insecurity
Get financial assistance? Move forward. Feeling unsafe? Back you go. For older women facing housing insecurity, navigating the ups and downs can be like a game of snakes and ladders.
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For more than a decade, finding a safe and affordable home has felt like a game of snakes and ladders for Meredith.
Securing her first social housing unit in her 50s felt like a major step up.
She stayed for three years, but living in a noisy environment, where drugs were sometimes visibly present, took its toll.
"I realised, even though I would have been beautifully housed for the rest of my life, I couldn't stay there," she said.
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