Actually a lot of older people quite like living in apartments - no gardening, someone else cleans the gutters, windows, looks after the exterior. But there's very limited options that are good for people like that.downsizing is a touchy subject - a few politicians have mentioned it in recent years and immediately been torn to pieces for "trying to force old people out of their homes". The main issue is there are very few suitable properties for older people to move into, they don't want small apartments where their neighbours are all short-term renters. There's also issues around financing, and I suppose general inertia. But there's undeniably a lot of older couples rattling around in large family homes that cost a fortune to maintain. I get the impression in other countries (the UK for example) it's more common to downsize in later life.
The bedroom tax is not a tax, its a reduction in the amount of housing benefit paid to social tenants in the UK who have more rooms than people in their homes. It was actually a rehash of a Brown-era labour policy called "Local Housing Allowance", the idea was that the housing benefit amount paid would be on the basis of family size not the size of the property. It never applied to owner occupiers.Why?
about 95% of families don't have 150m2I think a family need at least 150 sqm.