Retirement villages not all rosy

Updated April 23 2018 - 10:53pm, first published August 30 2015 - 6:41pm

Your article "Call for land action to avoid seniors housing crisis" (August 27, p1) quotes the ACT Property Council's view that more land is needed for retirement villages. It seems to me that these villages are highly convenient for the mega-corporations that now operate them across Australia, but may provide less rosy returns for their residents than the advertising suggests.

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