Understanding the Housing Aspirations of People in Scotland

This report from the Scottish Government follows research undertaken to better understand the housing aspirations of people in Scotland.

With regard to ageing, it found that people envisaged their housing needs, and in turn their preferences, changing over time because of shifts in household size (both growing and declining), and a need for adaptations in older age, or because of an illness or disability.

In addition, Older households (65+, most of whom owned their property in the research sample) talked about downsizing not for a smaller property per se, but rather to have everything on the one level (e.g. bungalow or cottage type property).