I was invited to intro a film about retirement villages for the DADo Film Society at the Robin Boyd Foundation, so I wrote some thoughts about building buffers against precarity. When I started my research almost a decade ago I wanted to study how the housing industry (my industry) was responding to the big demographic and social changes known as the ageing population. I knew housing, I knew nothing about ageing. Suddenly it was everywhere in my life, in everything I read - research papers, b...

I was invited to intro a film about retirement villages for the DADo Film Society at the Robin Boyd Foundation, so I wrote some thoughts about building buffers against precarity. When I started my research almost a decade ago I wanted to study how the housing industry (my industry) was responding to the big demographic and social changes known as the ageing population. I knew housing, I knew nothing about ageing. Suddenly it was everywhere in my life, in everything I read - research papers, b...