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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
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I realise it's going back over ground already covered but in answer to C'mon's post above (1418) this was in todays Independent. It appears that there are answers that don't require taxpayers money being ploughed into them & by the look of it various other issues are being dealt with at the same time, childminders, house sitters (to deter the opportunist Eastern European economic migrant who might decide to take up squatters rights in the UK, Gawd knows how they got into the Country
) A support network as it used to be with family helping each other, again without recourse to monetary benefits from the government.
Just an aside to this, the model highlighted has been pretty much of a normal thing here in Germany for quite some time. Grand parents/Parents have built with the idea of having a couple of generations under one roof looking after their own & maintaining some semblance of family cohesion.
Beating the housing shortage: one home, three generations - Home News - UK - The Independent