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Australia's population is ageing, and declining rates of homeownership and social housing provision are disrupting conventional expectations about post-retirement housing. Two neglected alternative sectors - residential parks and communities (PCs), and rental villages (RVs) - are now changing and emerging as significant housing options.

The PC and RV sectors are the focus of a new ARC Discovery Project led by City Futures Research Centre, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Sydney. The project aims to benefit scholarship and policy development regarding PC and RV sectors, with new evidence about the types of PCs and RVs, their place in local housing markets and economies, proprietors’ business models and strategies, and residents’ experiences of life in PCs and RVs and sector change. The research evidence will assist in formulating local plans for affordable housing, infrastructure and support and care for older persons, and law reform for PCs, RVs and adjacent sectors, such as retirement villages.

The project will also make major new contributions to scholarship on housing financialisation, through new thinking on debt and rent relations, and on investment and speculation in post-retirement incomes and liabilities - the financialisation of older age.

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If you currently live in a manufacture home and/or land lease community in NSW, QLD or Tasmania, please consider completing our . You will also have a chance to enter into a draw for one of five $100 Coles Myer gift vouchers. The survey closes 31 May 2025.

If you currently ´Ç±è±ð°ù²¹³Ù±ðÌýa manufactured home or land lease community in NSW, OLD or Tasmania, please consider completing our . The survey closes 31 May 2025.

Project status

Current

Related programs

Housing

Leading organisation

University of New South Wales

Funded by

Australian Research Council (ARC)