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Younger people boarding with senior citizens could help housing crisis

We’re in the clutches of a housing crisis and a loneliness epidemic…

And at the cross-section of the two, there’s 13 million spare bedrooms across the country.

A team at SGS Economics and Planning had an idea – what if younger people could be matched up with an older person in possession of a spare room?

Bill Woods is joined by Kate Colvin, the national spokesperson for the Everybody’s Home campaign and CEO of Homelessness Australia, to find out more.

Download this podcast here

John Stanley
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