If the elderly are to downsize and free up all the spare rooms they need good, inexpensive homes that are easy to care for and to be cared for in. They should be built in places where people can keep their social networks and routines. This requires building more homes!
10/ Yet what we can say is that decisions regarding housing consumption are motivated by more than finances. And (ironically for Monbiot), they are heavily constrained by a lack of supply, in particular supply that improves affordability and wellbeing. housingevidence.ac.uk/moving-house...
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