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Friday, 1st August, 2008
Fertility Rates and How We Live
On July 17, the Queensland Government’s Planning Information & Forecasting Unit (PIFU) presented the findings of the 2008 (sixth edition) Gold Coast City Broadhectare Study, which essentially involves measuring the capacity of the future residential land supply to accommodate the City’s anticipated population growth.
The presentation focussed firstly on population and demographic projections for the Gold Coast and then on the results of the Broadhectare Study.
One of the findings was that Gold Coast household type is currently dominated by “couples without children” and “lone-person households” (two highest growth types); which are being driven by the ageing population. Trend lines for each of the household types are generally anticipated to stay fairly stable; however the proportion of “couples with children” may start to increase again with fertility on the rise.
All of this impacts the type of housing we should be producing to address affordability. There has to be a fundamental shift in the way we live if we want our children to be able to afford their own home. Do we really need an ensuite attached to every bedroom?
