For many young adults, moving out of the family home is a daunting prospect: housing affordability, low wage growth and the cost of higher education mean that, for those who have the choice, living in the family home into early adulthood is the most – if not the only – affordable option. Yet Australian housing stock is in many ways too homogenous by design, planned primarily to support parents whose young children require close supervision. So how might our existing housing be adapted to meet the rise in multigenerational living, and to support individual independence within the family unit?
This was the dilemma facing Katie and Phil, whose eldest son was preparing to start university. Katie
