Don't Blame Older People for Housing Crisis

Calls made in the past for older people living in large homes to be penalised were both ageist and irrelevant, a think tank has claimed.  Instead people should 'right-size' their housing throughout their lives to get the most out of their homes, according to a report from the International Longevity Centre-UK's (ILC-UK).  The report suggests that a lack of desirable retirement housing dissuades many older people from moving - reducing the supply of appropriate homes for younger people.  It points out that the building of housing for older people has collapsed from over 30,000 units a year in the 1980s to around 8,000 today. Download a copy of the report from the ILC website.