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"While there’s little relief in sight for Australia’s housing crisis, with new
projects years away from completion, there appear to be as many as 13 million
unused spare bedrooms across the country.
In a new briefing paper for the QUT Centre for Justice I suggest that, at least
in the interim, these spare rooms ought to be part of the solution.
Here’s where you find them. The census says about 3.2 million Australian homes
have one spare bedroom, another 3 million have two spare rooms and 1.2 million
have three spare bedrooms or more.
They are more common in the homes of older than younger Australians.
A survey by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute found that more
than three-quarters of homeowners aged 74 and older had spare rooms compared to
less than two-thirds of homeowners aged 55 and younger.
These older owners are often “asset rich and income poor”. Most rely at least
in part on the age pension and could do with the income that would come from
renting out a room, so long as it didn’t cut into their pension or present them
with a capital gains tax bill when their home is eventually sold.
My work suggests these fears are largely unfounded, even though it’s hard to
convince many older Australians of that."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
