Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood
Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood
In many countries, there is growing public concern about the increasing difficulties that young people face in obtaining secure, affordable, high quality and well-located housing. Much of the analysis and discussion focuses on the ways in which intergenerational housing inequalities have deepened over time as young adults’ fortunes have deteriorated, most obviously through declining access to homeownership. In this review, we showcase how researchers are harnessing life course theories and rich longitudinal datasets, exploiting longitudinal modelling techniques, and developing new geographical data linkages to enhance our knowledge of a broader range of housing inequalities in young adulthood. We argue that incorporating these longitudinal perspectives more fully into geographical research and teaching will foster an enriched pluralistic model of quantitative human geography that is characterised by collaboration, critical engagement with policy issues, and sensitivity to the strengths and challenges of working in an integrated fashion with varied forms of numerical data.
Data structures; housing; inequality; policy; young people
Coulter, Rory
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Bayrakdar, Sait
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Berrington, Ann
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5 February 2020
Coulter, Rory
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Bayrakdar, Sait
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Berrington, Ann
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Coulter, Rory, Bayrakdar, Sait and Berrington, Ann
(2020)
Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood.
Geography Compass, 14 (5), [e12488].
(doi:10.1111/gec3.12488).
Abstract
In many countries, there is growing public concern about the increasing difficulties that young people face in obtaining secure, affordable, high quality and well-located housing. Much of the analysis and discussion focuses on the ways in which intergenerational housing inequalities have deepened over time as young adults’ fortunes have deteriorated, most obviously through declining access to homeownership. In this review, we showcase how researchers are harnessing life course theories and rich longitudinal datasets, exploiting longitudinal modelling techniques, and developing new geographical data linkages to enhance our knowledge of a broader range of housing inequalities in young adulthood. We argue that incorporating these longitudinal perspectives more fully into geographical research and teaching will foster an enriched pluralistic model of quantitative human geography that is characterised by collaboration, critical engagement with policy issues, and sensitivity to the strengths and challenges of working in an integrated fashion with varied forms of numerical data.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 January 2020
Published date: 5 February 2020
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Coulter and Bayrakdar's contributions were supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leaders award (ES/L009498/1; ES/L009498/2). Berrington's contribution was supported by the ESRC Centre for Population Change grant (ES/K007394/1).
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© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Keywords:
Data structures; housing; inequality; policy; young people
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437152
ISSN: 1749-8198
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