I’m not sure that it’s the Government’s role to tell citizens what kind of homes they choose to live in, but in any case there are to be strong incentives to older people to make it easier to “downsize” from empty-nest family homes. A White Paper will explore ways in which this might be achieved.
I have encountered those of my generation who have larger homes from which offspring have now grown and flown; and while they may talk of “rattling around” in an emptier house, they don’t necessarily want to quit their own family home.
