SIR – I object to homeowners being characterised as “clinging” to family-sized homes with “unused” bedrooms (“Where baby boomers are refusing to downsize – and fuelling a housing shortage”, Money, February 26). We live in a four-bedroom house, but the “extra” bedrooms are far from unused, since when our house was built in the 1970s no accommodation was made for a home office, or clothes storage, or really any kind of storage at all. We are not responsible for decades of government mismanagement
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