Episode 2.2 Your Home Is Doing More Work Than You Think with ⁠Simon Kuestenmacher and ⁠Terry Rawnsley⁠

<p>Housing is never just a place to live. It shapes how we age, work, connect, move and belong.</p><p>In this episode, I speak with <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://au.linkedin.com/in/simonkuestenmacher&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjUpLX-mM-UAxXg1DQHHUs2FBMQFnoECHoQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw1I34MkrdpY25sgScn1ZIl5" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Simon Kuestenmacher</a>, Co-founder and Director of <a href="https://www.tdgp.com.au" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Demographics Group</a>, and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://au.linkedin.com/in/terry-rawnsley&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi59v-Zmc-UAxVeklYBHeYWGAkQFnoECCAQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_T9rKeBLYw-yoBuG-Um-5" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Terry Rawnsley</a>, Director of Planning &amp; Infrastructure Economics at <a href="https://kpmg.com/au/en/contacts/r/terry-rawnsley.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">KPMG Australia</a>, about the deeper role housing plays in our lives.</p><p>We explore how housing is tied to demographic change, infrastructure, affordability, ageing and household needs. The conversation looks at the growing mismatch between the homes we build and the lives people are actually living, from large homes on the urban fringe to expensive inner-city housing and limited options for ageing and middle-income households.</p><p>Simon and Terry also unpack why the system keeps producing patterns that do not always make economic or social sense, and what could change if planning, feasibility and human need were better connected.</p><p>Tune in for a thoughtful conversation about why housing is never just housing, and why our homes are doing far more work than we think.</p>