Why are manufactured home estates problematic for retirees?

Lois Towart, Lecturer, School of Built Environment, and Kristian Ruming, Associate Professor in Urban Geography, Macquarie University

Some operators have predicted manufactured home estates will be the most popular type of retirement living in the near future, surpassing retirement villages. But enthusiastic development of manufactured home estates as retirement communities is creating future problems for the older Australians who call them home.

As explored in recently published PhD research in New South Wales, these home estates are often situated in locations affected by flooding and bushfire, and as the residents own the relocatable home, they bear the cost of these hazards.

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