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Home ownership and social policy in an ageing society.

Family Matters

Author: Winter, I.
Year: 1999
Type: Journal Article

Abstract:

In the context of the International Year of Older Persons, this article discusses the importance of home ownership to older Australians and, in the light of the prevailing fall in home ownership rates and an end to explicit policy support for home ownership, it examines some of the implications for the future. Recognition of the multiple advantages of home ownership to families, governments and society at large has in effect constructed a social contract with individual savings for home ownership being rewarded by favourable tax and pension treatments.


Further Details

Pages 9-11
Issue 52
Accession Number October, 2011
Notes Print discarded
Research Notes Electronic copy updated 18/06/2013 Call number given 18/06/2013
Keywords Australia, older, housing improvement, policy compliance

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