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Crowded house: Why more and more families are living together longer

By Sarah Lang
New Zealand Listener·
12 mins to read

As house prices soar, more and more extended families are discovering the benefits of living together. By Sarah Lang.

When Joelle Peters left her Dunedin home aged 19, she never imagined living with her parents again. "I thought, 'Yes, I've left home forever!'"

Now, the 31-year-old lecturer at Otago Polytechnic's engineering department lives with husband Ben, their children Eli, six, and Oriana, three, her parents and her aunt in "a big 19th-century home".

When she had children, Peters wished she

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