Greater longevity would also have made some of us more comfortable about carrying debt into older ages than in the past. Ideally, we would enter retirement with our home mortgages paid off and completely free of any other kind of debt. In theory at least, this may enable us to use our retirement savings to fully or partly finance our retirement. Yet many retirees reach common retirement ages with outstanding mortgages and other debts. This leads to the inevitable question: How is the debt to be repaid? A wide-reaching research paper*, Inquiry into housing policies, labour force participation and economic growth, […]