Meet the forever renters: 'Nobody wants to be in share housing when they're in their late 70s'

After long careers, now expecting easier lives, a cohort of older Australians are instead struggling with housing affordability and security Read other stories in Priced out: How the housing crisis is reshaping Australia "Too old to be renting" was how Thomas, a 65-year-old Queenslander summed it up. He and his partner had been saving to buy a home before rent rises ate into much of their savings. "Home ownership opportunities," he said, "have vanished." A country that once held home ownership a...