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Housing and ageing

Does private renting age you faster than owning a house?

In a new episode of our quick-listen one-to-one podcasts, Dr Amy Clair from the Australian Centre for Housing Research and Research Fellow at MiSoC, talks to Chris Coates from Understanding Society about research with Meena Kumari at Essex and Emma Baker at the University of Adelaide, using our data, which suggests that private renting can age you faster than being unemployed or smoking.

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