Tag Archives: downsize

Fixing our broken housing market

Fixing our broken housing market

On 7th February 2017 the Government issued a White Paper which included a suggestion made by Housing Minister Gavin Barwell that making it easier for older people to downsize could help solve the hous ...
Build them smaller

Build them smaller

On the front page of issue 285 (March 2016) you mention the matter of ‘house hoarding’ by older people whose children have left home, leaving them with houses larger than they need. As you rightly say ...