For the people voting this down, this article highlights an important issue, which is that women aged 55 and over are at growing risk of homelessness.

Even more worrying for Sandra is the prospect of joining the fastest-growing group of people experiencing homelessness in Australia: women aged 55 and over.

Sydney-based Bacon has particular concern for the rising number of women facing homelessness in their older years.

She says this is because women typically have about 25 per cent less superannuation than men, due to the gender pay gap, which flows onto a gender retirement gap and motherhood penalty.