Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210103471

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

The financialisation of older persons residential parks and rental villages. The project aims to explore and explain contemporary change in the residential parks and communities (PC) and rental villages (RV) sectors, and to set out policy implications, including for housing affordability; housing legal rights; ageing support and care; and financial services consumer protection. Pitched to older persons as affordable alternatives to homeownership and to retirement villages, PCs and RVs are changing, with new large corporate proprietors introducing new business models and housing offers. Financialisation perspectives offer new critical insights into the sectors, including their relations to wider housing and economic dynamics, the strategies and operations of sector organisations, and the everyday lives of residents.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2021

End Date: 29-06-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $291,012.00

Funder: Australian Research Council