The end of 2018 was busy for both HANZA and our new project Home Share Melbourne, and the start of 2019 hasn’t let up! Home Share Melbourne recently sent out an update to its supporters and those who’ve registered an […]

This fortnight’s edition of The Big Issue includes an in-depth feature about Homeshare and the new Home Share Melbourne program. The piece examines two successful, but quite different, Homeshare matches: householder Philomena, who’s in her seventies, and her 20-year-old homesharer […]

This year’s Annual Report has been published! For HANZA, 2018 was a year of new development in some areas and frustration in others. We’ve launched the new Homeshare pilot program Home Share Melbourne, and we’re delighted that it’s to be […]

In the wake of the announcement of a Royal Commission into Australia’s aged care sector, ABC Radio National has been undertaking an ongoing investigation into the current state of the industry. As part of this investigation, the station’s breakfast program recently looked in […]

Home Share Melbourne is a new project that takes the homeshare model and extends it beyond aged care into the fight against homelessness. The pilot program starts this month in the City of Port Phillip, and we were delighted to […]

Here’s the August edition of our newsletter! This month: putting the “NZ” back into HANZA with Age Concern in Hawkes Bay; homeshare in the news on SBS Online; exciting news about the upcoming Home Share Melbourne program; a new Homeshare […]

The Homeshare World Congress is returning for another year! This year’s event will be held in Belgium. It’s scheduled to take place from 21 to 22 March 2019 at the Auditorium Chancellerie BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels, hosted by Belgian […]

The budding Sydney and Melbourne Homeshare programs met up for a productive lunch earlier this month. Many thanks to Kathryn Brookes (above) from Holdsworth Community, Sydney for a very stimulating visit. Holdsworth Community is working hard to establish a “social enterprise” […]

In the April 2018 edition of the Homeshare Australia newsletter: our President, Annette Madden, receives a well-deserved OAM; an update on the Homeshare Round Table in Canberra last October; a fascinating piece by author, scholar and Australian Children’s Television Foundation […]

As people live longer and desire independence over aged-care facilities, they prefer to remain in the homes they own. Some 60% of free-standing houses with back yards are occupied by people over 50, and in greater Melbourne alone there are […]