"Homelessness is high in rural areas, particularly for women, due to a greater likelihood of low incomes, challenges to employment and a chronic shortage of affordable housing." You're staring down the barrel of retirement without a job, savings or super, and it's terrifying because you realise you're on the cusp of homelessness. You could be forgiven for assuming homelessness is an issue confined to the main streets of big cities. We need to ensure rural communities have the resources and approach required to address homelessness which is occurring at a much higher rate. We have seen this impact older women the hardest as, for a range of reasons, they come to the end of their working lives without the same financial resources as men.

Source: Huffington Post November 21, 2017 03:45 UTC