A cross-cohort description of young people's housing experience in Britain over 30 years: An application of Sequence Analysis

Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton (), Polina Obolenskaya () and Richard Wiggins
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Ruth Lupton: Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economic and Political Science, University of London, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE.
Polina Obolenskaya: Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.

No 10-17, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: Methods. Sequence Analysis supported by Event History Analysis. Key Findings. Despite only 12 years separating both cohorts, the younger 1970 cohort exhibited very different patterns of housing including a slower progression out of the parental home and into stable tenure, and an increased reliance on privately rented housing. Returns to the parental home occurred across the twenties and into the thirties in both cohorts, although occurred more frequently and were more concentrated among certain groups in the 1970 cohort compared to the 1958 cohort. Although fewer cohort members in the 1970 cohort experienced social housing, and did so at a later age, social housing was also associated with greater tenure immobility in this younger cohort. Conclusions. The housing experiences of the younger cohort became associated with more unstable tenure (privately rented housing) for the majority. Leaving the parental home was observed to be a process, as opposed to a one-off event, and several returns to the parental home were documented, more so for the 1970 cohort. These findings are not unrelated, and in the current environment of rising house prices, collapses in the (youth) labour market and rising costs of higher education, are likely to increase in prevalence across subsequent cohorts.

Keywords: Housing; Young People; Sequence Analysis; Housing Tenure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J19 R20 R21 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10-12
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