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A Point of View: Beyond Bricks and Mortar

03/05/2024

Beyond Bricks and Mortar

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Megan Nolan on why she's well suited to the insecurity of her generation's housing crisis.

Megan Nolan reflects on a generation that believes they'll never own their own home.

Megan Nolan ponders her generation's housing crisis. 

'Sometimes it all crashes over me, how adrift I am, and how laughably inconceivable the idea is that I would ever own a place on my own,' writes Megan.

But there are other ways of framing this dilemma too, she believes. 'My favourite of those is to think that I'm unusually capable of feeling at home in the world at large, instead of just one building, or just one town....There are parts of me that would not exist except for my privilege to live in other places, those parts were born all over the world, and I remember the luck of that when I feel at a loss about bricks and mortar.'

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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