IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envira/v50y2018i5p1092-1108.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Young adults’ pathways into homeownership in Tokyo: Shifting practices and meanings

Author

Listed:
  • Oana Druta
  • Richard Ronald

Abstract

This paper examines homeownership pathways of young adults in Tokyo, Japan, making use of an original data set of qualitative interviews. By analyzing the narratives of young adults, the article argues that in contemporary Tokyo homeownership pathways are diversifying, due to changing gender roles within households, intergenerational responsibilities and an increasingly questionable potential of homeownership to result in asset accumulation. Thus, while still following housing pathways that result in homeownership, young people are both adapting to the conditions of a practically failing but politically and ideologically resilient homeownership system and challenging its boundaries.

Suggested Citation

  • Oana Druta & Richard Ronald, 2018. "Young adults’ pathways into homeownership in Tokyo: Shifting practices and meanings," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(5), pages 1092-1108, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:50:y:2018:i:5:p:1092-1108
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18763372
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X18763372
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0308518X18763372?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ray Forrest & Yosuke Hirayama, 2009. "The Uneven Impact of Neoliberalism on Housing Opportunities," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(4), pages 998-1013, December.
    2. Piyush Tiwari & Edwin Deutsch & Yoko Moriizumi, 2007. "Housing Finance Arrangements, Wealth Positioning and Housing Consumption in Japan: An Analysis of Built-for-sale Homeowners," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 34(3), pages 347-367, April.
    3. Jane M Jacobs & Susan J Smith, 2008. "Living Room: Rematerialising Home," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 40(3), pages 515-519, March.
    4. Akihiko Kato, 2013. "The Japanese family system: change, continuity, and regionality over the twentieth century," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2013-004, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    5. James Barlow & Ritsuko Ozaki, 2005. "Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 37(1), pages 9-20, January.
    6. James Raymo & Miho Iwasawa & Larry Bumpass, 2009. "Cohabitation and family formation in Japan," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 46(4), pages 785-803, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Andy Merrifield, 2015. "Amateur urbanism," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(5), pages 753-762, October.
    2. Albert Sabater & Nissa Finney, 2023. "Age segregation and housing unaffordability: Generational divides in housing opportunities and spatial polarisation in England and Wales," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(5), pages 941-961, April.
    3. James Raymo & Yanfei Zhou, 2012. "Living Arrangements and the Well-Being of Single Mothers in Japan," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 31(5), pages 727-749, October.
    4. Ugo Fratesi, 2017. "Classic books in regional studies: an introduction to the 50th Anniversary Book Review Collection," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(2), pages 346-347, February.
    5. Yunzi Yang & Yuanyuan Ma & Hongzan Jiao, 2021. "Exploring the Correlation between Block Vitality and Block Environment Based on Multisource Big Data: Taking Wuhan City as an Example," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-23, September.
    6. Constantine E. Kontokosta, 2016. "The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs: A Framework for Computational Urban Science and Civic Technology Innovation," Journal of Urban Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 67-84, October.
    7. Sam Hyun Yoo, 2016. "Postponement and recuperation in cohort marriage: The experience of South Korea," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 35(35), pages 1045-1078.
    8. Jill L. Grant, 2016. "Double review: the kind of solution Jane Jacobs is," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 483-485, July.
    9. Rachel Friedman & Gillad Rosen, 2020. "The face of affordable housing in a neoliberal paradigm," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(5), pages 959-975, April.
    10. Yoshida Akiko, 2011. "No chance for romance: Corporate culture, gendered work, and increased singlehood in Japan," Contemporary Japan, De Gruyter, vol. 23(2), pages 213-234, January.
    11. Kevin Fox Gotham, 2016. "Re-anchoring capital in disaster-devastated spaces: Financialisation and the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone programme," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(7), pages 1362-1383, May.
    12. Parkinson, Sharon & James, Amity & Liu, Edgar & Hayward, Richard Donald, 2018. "Navigating a changing private rental sector: opportunities and challenges for low-income renters," SocArXiv f3h4s, Center for Open Science.
    13. Michael Batty, 2017. "Cities in civilization," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(8), pages 1282-1284, August.
    14. Ryohei Mogi & Daniele Vignoli, 2021. "Sexual debut and dating of university students in low fertility societies: Italy and Japan," Econometrics Working Papers Archive 2021_06, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti".
    15. Rowan Arundel & Richard Ronald, 2021. "The false promise of homeownership: Homeowner societies in an era of declining access and rising inequality," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(6), pages 1120-1140, May.
    16. Moriizumi, Yoko & Naoi, Michio, 2011. "Unemployment risk and the timing of homeownership in Japan," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(3), pages 227-235, May.
    17. Judith Treas & Jonathan Lui & Zoya Gubernskaya, 2014. "Attitudes on marriage and new relationships," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(54), pages 1495-1526.
    18. Andrew Cherlin, 2017. "Introduction to the Special Collection on Separation, Divorce, Repartnering, and Remarriage around the World," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 37(38), pages 1275-1296.
    19. Wei-hsin Yu & Yuko Hara, 2020. "Job characteristics, marital intentions, and partner-seeking actions: Longitudinal evidence from Japan," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 43(52), pages 1509-1544.
    20. Ken Yamada, 2010. "Family Background and Economic Outcomes in Japan," Working Papers 26-2010, Singapore Management University, School of Economics.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:50:y:2018:i:5:p:1092-1108. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.