Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780868408781)

Renovation Nation asks why we have become so wrapped up in our homes. It explores the ways we are distorting our lives in the pursuit of prestige and tax-free capital gains as we play the real estate game with mindless passion. Fixated on interest rates and surrounded by headlines about housing affordability, we remain determined to make our homes bigger and better. The great Australian dream of owning a home seems to have become the great Australian nightmare. But what about the national home? Is our anxiety about safety and security, about keeping the 'wrong' people out of Australia, or off 'our' beaches, the flipside of this obsession?

Author: Fiona Allon
ISBN-10: 0868408786
ISBN-13: 9780868408781
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d