Young Peoples? Perceptions of Housing Tenure: A Case Study in the Socialization of Tenure Prejudice

Rowlands, Rob; Gurney, Craig M.

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“…Third, homes can become reflections of the self while also being a product of an individual's embodied self (Marcus, 1995). A home can contribute to self-identity in the sense that it is symbolic of status (Rowlands and Gurney, 2001) and a person's aesthetic preferences (Neumark, 2013). Thus homes are not only an extension of self; they can be inextricably bound together with an individual's perceived identity and resultant conduct.…”

Section: Home In the Private Rented Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Hoolachan

McKee

Moore

et al. 2016

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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Section: Home In the Private Rented Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Hoolachan

McKee

Moore

et al. 2016

Journal of Youth Studies

180

131

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“…Previous applications of Bourdieu in UK housing research include Rowlands and Gurney (2000) on 'tenure prejudice, ' Flint and Rowlands (2003) on housing commodification and symbolic capital, and Sturzaker and Shucksmith (2011) on discursive power and symbolic violence in planning for rural housebuilding. This body of work points to the cultural and symbolic significance of housing as a commodified good in the UK, as well as the role of professional systems in representing and validating middle class tastes.…”

Section: Social Reproduction Of Inequality In Multi-occupancy Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Symbolic power is understood as "the power to impose and to inculcate a vision of divisions, that is, the power to make visible and explicit social divisions that are implicit" (ibid: 23). According to Rowlands and Gurney (2000), tenure prejudice consists of real and fictitious images pertaining to certain housing tenures. The socialization of housing suggests that these images and attitudes towards housing are adopted through cultural messages and symbols (ibid).…”

Section: Social Reproduction Of Inequality In Multi-occupancy Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our purpose is to highlight how the English policy and legislative mechanisms fail to address energy vulnerability in HMO, and what kind of socio-cultural conditions are conducive to this. To understand how this ignorance has developed in England, we deploy Bourdieusian concepts including symbolic power, middle class taste and 'tenure prejudice' (Rowlands and Gurney, 2000). Finally, we propose a tentative typology of HMO with a practical purpose of illustrating how professionals and the public could begin to have a more positive and nuanced discourse about the role and future of this highly variegated housing type.…”

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Energy vulnerability in multiple occupancy housing: a problem that policy forgot

Cauvain¹,

Bouzarovski²

2016

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Housing in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) includes some of the UK's worst housing stock. The tenants typically have reduced housing and social security rights, as well as reduced control and sometimes absence of basic domestic energy services. Yet, HMO is largely absent from UK policies governing energy efficiency and fuel poverty. Energy vulnerability in HMO is exacerbated by a lack of representation and recognition of HMO in official systems and statistics on the housing stock, socio-cultural preferences for traditional single-family homes, and widespread tenure prejudice based on negative imagery about HMO. An indicative typology of HMO is proposed based on five main tenancy scenarios: illegal/informal; rooms in a shared house; group of sharers; bedsits; and poorly converted flats. The purpose is to improve the recognition and inclusion of the variegated HMO sector in policy frameworks and public debates in a more nuanced fashion.

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“…Young people build their preferences for housing tenure based on their experiences growing up (Rowlands & Gurney, 2000), and therefore, persons growing up in apartments or rental housing may be more willing to themselves have children in these housing types. In addition, the ability of individuals to access different housing contexts is limited by their socio-economic position.…”

Section: Housing Preferences and Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing context and childbearing in Sweden: a cohort study

Chudnovskaya

2018

Housing Studies

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Previous research has established the link between individuals' housing characteristics and their childbearing behavior. This study contributes to this literature by examining the association between first, second and third parity transitions and housing tenure and type. The study design distinguishes between owner-occupied apartments, rental apartments and owner-occupied detached houses. This study also uniquely takes into account individual housing histories in relation to later life fertility outcomes. The data used are an extract from Swedish registers covering 25% of the population. Housing information is available from 1986 to 2006, and the study follows four birth cohorts of women who are aged 15-18 when the study starts, until ages 35-38. Descriptive results on housing and childbearing transitions over the life course are complemented by event-history models to model the parity transitions. Women living in detached housing have the highest likelihood of parity transitions, while women living in rental apartments have the lowest likelihood. Although women from different housing backgrounds have similar outcomes in terms of parity and timing, housing of origin is related to housing context during childbearing transitions, and thus, serves as a good insight to individual housing norms and constraints.

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Young Peoples? Perceptions of Housing Tenure: A Case Study in the Socialization of Tenure Prejudice

Cited by 79 publications

References 14 publications

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

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

Energy vulnerability in multiple occupancy housing: a problem that policy forgot

Housing context and childbearing in Sweden: a cohort study

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