COMMUNITY LIVING
CHANGE IN AUSTRALIA
FAMILIES SHAKING lIO.MiiS
Wartime conditions have brought community living to Australian cities. In peace time. Australian illes liked a home of their own, ami only the poorest resorted to sharing houses. Now homo-sharing is a boon to families Avith depleted incomes and to owners of largo properties.
Many largo homos in Sydney's pleasant eastern suburbs were vacated, after Japan entered the war, by owners who moved their families inland. For a while they Avere white elephants to estate agents. Now, at reduced rentals, they have been let for community living.
In many cases, three iamilies who formerly lived in ilats' or small homes arc sharing one large home at a rental of £5. Estate agents say that families are deriving more benefit from this than merely paying less rent each, and reducing bills by buying food in larger quantities. Agents find that most of the wives are enjoying the new system. Those whose husbands are way in the armed forces like the companionship, and housework is lessened by the sharing of household duties.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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178COMMUNITY LIVING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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