Episode Details

Housing is never just a place to live. It shapes how we age, work, connect, move and belong.

In this episode, I speak with Simon Kuestenmacher, Co-founder and Director of The Demographics Group, and Terry Rawnsley, Director of Planning & Infrastructure Economics at KPMG Australia, about the deeper role housing plays in our lives.

We explore how housing is tied to demographic change, infrastructure, affordability, ageing and household needs. The conversation looks at the growing mismatch between the homes we build and the lives people are actually living, from large homes on the urban fringe to expensive inner-city housing and limited options for ageing and middle-income households.

Simon and Terry also unpack why the system keeps producing patterns that do not always make economic or social sense, and what could change if planning, feasibility and human need were better connected.

Tune in for a thoughtful conversation about why housing is never just housing, and why our homes are doing far more work than we think.