Valuing Retirement Housing

August 19, 2016

An analysis of the economic effects of the development of new specialist housing for older people.

This report:

  • Explores the potential economic effects of specialist retirement housing;
  • Estimates the financial value of these economic effects drawing on relevant social survey, administrative and population data;
  • Aggregates the total estimated financial value of a single unit of new specialist retirement

You can download the report at:

Valuing Retirement Housing

Author: James Lloyd, Strategic Society Centre

Tags: ageing | housing

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