Limit search to available items
Record 4 of 24
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
E-book
Author Morris, Alan

Title The Australian Dream : Housing Experiences of Older Australians
Published Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; About the author; Acknowledgements; 1 Housing tenure and an ageing society; 2 The growing divide: housing policy and older Australians; 3 'You cannot live on that & It's a joke': housing tenure and the capacity to pay for accommodation; 4 'You go past the shops and you look and you can't buy': the cost of accommodation and the ability to lead a decent life on the Age Pension; 5 'Exceedingly miserable and bloody cold': accommodation and housing tenure; 6 'My social life is down the drain': housing tenure, social ties and leisure
7 'I really have thought this can't go on': housing tenure and health8 'I won't be here that long because they are waiting for the right price': landlord-tenant relations; 9 The increasing residualisation49 of social housing and its implications for older tenants; 10 Conclusions: where to from here?; Appendix A: methodology employed in€the€study; Appendix B: profile of interviewees; Endnotes; References; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Older people -- Housing -- Australia -- Case studies
Older people -- Housing -- Australia
Home ownership -- Australia
Home ownership
Older people -- Housing
Australia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781486301461
1486301460