ABSTRACT
Older Australians have one of the world’s highest rates of homeownership. In 2006 about 76.5 per cent of older Australians aged 65 plus owned their own home outright and another 5.4 per cent were homeowners with a mortgage (Jones 2011). This article concentrates on the 14.5 per cent of older Australians (65 plus) who are renters. About half of older renters are in public or community housing and approximately half are dependent on the private rental market. Noteworthy, is that 19 per cent of households occupied by an older single person, were rented; 11 per cent were in the private rental market and 8 per cent were in public housing (ABS 2008).
