Hume City

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Hume City Older Persons Accommodation Strategy
and Action Plan
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Hume City Overview
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Hume City Overview

• Current population 150,000 by 2030 population
  225,000
• Middle ring metro area renewal area (15 km to
  city)
• Broadmeadows 68,000 pop.
• Outer metro fringe developing areas -
• Craigieburn pop 15,543 by 2030 73,000
• Rural land country township
• 65 total land rural (Melbourne green wedge)
• Sunbury township pop 30,059

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Hume City Overview

• Challenges
• 5th most disadvantaged LGA in Victoria
• 25 born overseas from NESB
• 16 residents have income below poverty line
  (Australia 8.7)
• 65 years residents population increase
• 2001-2016 additional 5,000 pop. 65yrs
• 31 residents aged under 18 years (Melb 24)

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National Context for Strategy

• Increasing numbers/proportion of older people
• Increasing life expectancy
• Older peoples preferences rights
• Ageing in place policy
• Decreasing access to affordable appropriate
  housing

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Local Context for Strategy

• Local population growth- no. ageing
• HACC funding- not keeping pace with needs
• Affordability 43 pop. 65yrs have lt200/week
• Home Ownership- 56 renting public housing
• Interest from developers
• Major development areas greenfield renewal
• Commitment to Social Justice

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Hume City Older Persons Accommodation Strategy
and Action Plan

• Purpose
• To inform Hume City Councils role in planning
  and advocating for the development of a range of
  accommodation options to meet current and future
  needs of older residents and provides a context
  for further action.

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Hume City Older Persons Accommodation Strategy
and Action Plan

• Informed by
• current policy trends
• available and projected demographic data
• analysis of current accommodation options and
  residential care provision
• views expressed by older people, service
  agencies, residential aged care providers and
  developers

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Community and Stakeholder Consultation

• Key consultation questions framed around
• Unmet needs preferences
• Reasons people change accommodation at later
  stages in their life
• What influences their choices
• Councils role to guide housing/ residential
  aged care developments to meet local need

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Community and Stakeholder Consultation

• Older persons and service providers feedback
  highlighted
• desire for ageing in place- stay in own home
• access to housing/care options in local community
• affordability issues for those on limited incomes

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Community and Stakeholder Consultation

• Developers feedback highlighted
• planning and policy issues-
• need for flexibility
• affordability sustainability
• viable 60 beds
• return on older persons housing developments
  conventional residential
• latter is easier

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Strategy Some Key Issues

• Residential care options need to respond to
  changing needs and ageing in place.
• HACC under-funding State equity formula (WREN)
• 2002/03 underfunded by 800,000
• 2004/05 underfunded by 2 million (pop growth)
• Shift in public housing policy (capital funding/
  rental assistance) impacts on older people
  without private/public home ownership
• Developer driven provision of independent
  supported care accommodation

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Strategy and Action Plan

• Hume City Council will
• Plan
• Amend relevant planning policies to promote
  affordable, appropriate and integrated Older
  Persons Housing.
• Examples
• Sunbury (100 unit development) no 2 metre stone
  wall
• Retirement Village Bridgewater Estate includes
  
• 200 independent units90 serviced apartments
  respite beds accessible community centre

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Strategy and Action Plan

• Hume City Council will
• Facilitate
• Encourage development of older persons
  accommodation that responds to local needs
• Examples
• Application poor quality caravan park not proceed
  BUT
• Broadmeadows Dallas Urban Renewal Plan
• Category Winner National Awards Local Govt
  Planning for Safe, Accessible Adaptable Built
  Environments for Ageing Communities
• Remnant Site- older person unitsshopmedical
  centre

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Strategy and Action Plan

• Hume City Council will
• Advocate
• Represent community and stakeholder views and
  promote improved access to responsive Older
  Persons accommodation
• Examples
• Transit City Master Plan for Broadmeadows
• Developers- encourage diversity of housing stock
• Public Housing- redevelopment of large blocks to
  Older Persons units (OPU)

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Strategy and Action Plan

• Hume City Council will
• Consult
• Consult on emerging older persons housing issues
• Examples
• establish Affordable Housing in Hume Forum
• focus on housing issues in Aged Services Network
  and Consumer Advisory Group
• partnership with Office of Housing -
  Neighbourhood Renewal program

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Strategy and Action Plan

• Hume City Council will
• Provide
• Ensure appropriate resources to meet provision
  of home support services that will enable older
  persons to remain independent in their own home.
• Examples
• Council contribution to community care services
  (annually 1.3 million- HACC)
• Partnerships recreation social support-
  Senior Citizen and ethno specific groups.
  Respite- community health services

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Some Future Directions and Challenges

• Ensuring services meet demands of growing older
  persons population.
• Equitable share of HACC resources
• Sufficient number of low and high care beds
• Ensuring provision of choice-
• eg access to (supported) independent living units
  or downsize in community/close family
• Affordability issues for income and/or asset poor
  residents as their care needs increase.