Outlining a future research agenda for studies of young adults’ transitions to residential independence
Outlining a future research agenda for studies of young adults’ transitions to residential independence
This paper argues that a new research agenda is required to understand how young adults’ housing careers have responded to recent changes in the demographic, socio-economic and policy context. Increasing tuition fees for higher education, welfare retrenchment, increasing private housing costs and the concentration of the social housing sector on those most in priority need, mean that many young adults are not able to leave, or return to the parental home. Non-resident fathers are at a particular disadvantage in terms of accessing welfare benefits or social housing, especially following the introduction in 2012 of an extension of the restrictions in housing benefit to a “shared accommodation rate” for those aged under 35. As young adults are increasingly expected to rely on parental rather than state support, the changing meaning of the parental home must also be taken into account.
living arrangements, young adults, housing policy, transition to adulthood
ESRC Centre for Population Change
Berrington, Ann
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Stone, Juliet
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July 2013
Berrington, Ann
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Stone, Juliet
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Berrington, Ann and Stone, Juliet
(2013)
Outlining a future research agenda for studies of young adults’ transitions to residential independence
(ESRC Centre for Population Change Working Paper Series, 38)
Southampton, GB.
ESRC Centre for Population Change
25pp.
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Abstract
This paper argues that a new research agenda is required to understand how young adults’ housing careers have responded to recent changes in the demographic, socio-economic and policy context. Increasing tuition fees for higher education, welfare retrenchment, increasing private housing costs and the concentration of the social housing sector on those most in priority need, mean that many young adults are not able to leave, or return to the parental home. Non-resident fathers are at a particular disadvantage in terms of accessing welfare benefits or social housing, especially following the introduction in 2012 of an extension of the restrictions in housing benefit to a “shared accommodation rate” for those aged under 35. As young adults are increasingly expected to rely on parental rather than state support, the changing meaning of the parental home must also be taken into account.
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Published date: July 2013
Keywords:
living arrangements, young adults, housing policy, transition to adulthood
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Social Statistics & Demography, Centre for Population Change
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Local EPrints ID: 354982
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/354982
ISSN: 2042-4116
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Juliet Stone
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