There’s no place like home, Dorothy reminded us in The Wizard of Oz… but what and where do we call home? And is it changing?
Should we be reframing the way we think about our homes? In particular, should we be seriously reconsidering where we live – and in what kind of ‘home’ – as we move into our later decades?
It’s a complicated issue but it is this and similar questions that the Government’s principal review and advisory body on policy and regulation, The Productivity Commission, has been investigating in its most recent survey and review, Housing Decisions of Older Australians, published on 1 December 2015.
When baby boomers and other older people are in the media spotlight, it is commonly to declare that they’re refusing to ‘downsize’ their homes. As the story goes, they hog the best family-sized real estate in the inner ring suburbs of our bigger cities, keeping it out of reach of young families who need the space in reasonable proximity to work.
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