Young People, Homeownership and Future Welfare

McKee, Kim

doi:10.1080/02673037.2012.714463

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“…Articles in this special issue add to an existing body of evidence which shows young people do not share the same opportunities to leave the family home and transition into independent living -instead there is significant inequality amongst young people (Clapham et al, 2014;Ford, Rugg, & Burrows, 2002;Hochstenbach and Boterman, 2015;McKee, 2012). Three factors are particularly influential in determining who is able to leave and what accommodation they can secure.…”

Section: Housing Policy Challengesmentioning

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“…First, young people with higher economic resources are advantaged (Clapham et al, 2014) and this proved to be particularly true in Filandri and Bertolini's European overview (2016). Second, parental support can help transitions by providing economic assistance (Druta & Ronald, 2016;Ford et al, 2002;McKee, 2012) but also hinder transitions by expecting young people to remain at home for longer (Mackie, 2012). The Hong Kong and Chinese articles in this special issue reiterate the important economic and indeed social role of parents in influencing young people's transitions from the family home.…”

Section: Housing Policy Challengesmentioning

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Young people and housing: identifying the key issues

Mackie

2016

International Journal of Housing Policy

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The housing experiences of young people are a contemporary global concern, with the exacerbation of young people's housing problems in many countries reported widely in the media and raising important policy questions. In response, this special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy presents new empirical research from Europe and East Asia and seeks to identify key areas for improvement in national housing policies. This editorial summarises the main housing issues identified in the special issue articles and identifies the emergence of two cross-cutting policy challenges. The first challenge is to ensure all young people have an equal opportunity to leave the family home and live independently. This will require a much greater awareness of the political, economic and cultural forces restricting young people's transitions. The second key policy challenge is to improve the suitability and availability of housing for young people, with studies in this special issue specifically pointing towards an improved private rented sector and further provision of shared housing. Articles in this special issue indicate that a failure to respond to these significant housing policy challenges will have wide reaching social and economic consequences.

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Section: Housing Policy Challengesmentioning

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Young people and housing: identifying the key issues

Mackie

2016

International Journal of Housing Policy

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“…This expansion of the PRS reflects broader processes of neoliberal welfare state restructuring that have gathered pace in the UK, and internationally, since the 1980s. These processes have reduced the welfare safety-net for citizens, requiring them instead to take responsibility for their own life outcomes through the market (Kemp, 2015;McKee, 2012;Forrest and Hirayama, 2009). …”

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‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

Hoolachan

McKee

Moore

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Journal of Youth Studies

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'Generation rent' and the ability to 'settle down': economic and geographical variation in young people's housing transitions. Journal of Youth Studies, 20(1), pp. 63-78.There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/147165/ AbstractThe term 'Generation Rent' denotes young people who are increasingly living in the private rented sector for longer periods of their lives because they are unable to access homeownership or social housing. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies with young people and keyactors, this paper considers the phenomenon of 'Generation Rent' from the perspective of youth transitions and the concept of 'home'. These frameworks posit that young people leaving the parental home traverse housing and labour markets until they reach a point of 'settling down'. However, our data indicate that many young people face difficulties in this 'settling' process as they have to contend with insecure housing, unstable employment and welfare cuts which often force them to be flexible and mobile. This leaves many feeling frustrated as they struggle to remain fixed in place in order to 'settle down' and benefit from the positive qualities of home. Taking a Scottish focus, this paper further highlights the geographical dimension to these challenges and argues that those living in expensive and/or rural areas may find it particularly difficult to settle down.

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“…Analysis of the expansion of the PRS in England and Wales has highlighted that private renting has grown most rapidly amongst less advantaged young adults (Coulter, 2016), a trend which has been mirrored in Northern Ireland where over half of all private sector tenants are in receipt of housing benefit payments (Department for Social Development, 2015). This lends weight to the theory that the contraction of social housing sectors in some areas of the UK has contributed to PRS growth (McKee, 2012;Whitehead & Scanlon, 2015). This point is emphasised by Powell (2015, p. 324) who argues that recent tenure change is a product of longer-term processes of housing privatisation in the UK, dating back to the Housing Acts of 1980 and 1988.…”

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The convergence, divergence and changing geography of regulation in the UK's private rented sector

Moore

2017

International Journal of Housing Policy

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The role of the private rented sector (PRS) has grown in many parts of Europe in recent years, both as an increasing component of housing systems and as the effects of the global financial crisis become apparent. In the UK, the role of the sector has deepened and is increasingly relied upon to house growing and diverse proportions of the population for longer periods of time. This has renewed interest in the regulation of the sector in order to improve its suitability and desirability for tenants. There has been increasing convergence in regulatory approaches between some jurisdictions of the UK, such as Scotland and Wales, and divergence between others, such as England where regulation remains a residual policy concern. Using examples of tenure security, landlord regulation and affordability, this policy review seeks to highlight the emerging differences in the way the PRS is regulated within the UK. It argues that the likely consequence of these differences is that there may be increased variation in the effects and experience of renting in the PRS, in relation to eviction protections and landlord management standards. The paper shows how jurisdictions in Scotland, and to a lesser extent Wales and Northern Ireland, are moving towards models of regulation that more closely mirror those used in Western European countries, with England becoming an outlier in the way in which it regulates private renting.

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Young People, Homeownership and Future Welfare

Cited by 258 publications

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Young people and housing: identifying the key issues

Young people and housing: identifying the key issues

‘Generation rent’ and the ability to ‘settle down’: economic and geographical variation in young people’s housing transitions

The convergence, divergence and changing geography of regulation in the UK's private rented sector

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