{"id":588511,"date":"2026-09-03T02:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588511\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:44:25","slug":"forgotten-women-the-charity-giving-forgotten-women-their-dignity-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588511\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Women: The charity giving forgotten women their dignity back"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a lifetime of working, raising families and contributing to their communities, older Australian women are experiencing homelessness now more than ever.<\/p>\n

One organisation is giving these forgotten women their dignity back and a place to call home.<\/p>\n

\"Desley<\/p>\n

Desley never thought she would end up homeless in her golden years.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

The Forgotten Women charity has just opened brand new subsidised housing in Brisbane, giving 15 women over the age of 55 a safe, single bedroom unit to call home.<\/p>\n

Forgotten Women chief executive Teresa Reed said a third of their clients are widowed, another third are divorced and another third come from either domestic violence or an elder abuse situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomelessness isn\u2019t one pot of people, it isn\u2019t one narrative,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrugs and alcohol is not the issue here. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s literally just about not having the money to rent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit The Forgotten Women website<\/a> to find out how to support the organisation\u2019s upcoming Live Like Her challenge.<\/p>\n

Watch the full story in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a lifetime of working, raising families and contributing to their communities, older Australian women are experiencing homelessness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-588511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}