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Parental background and housing outcomes in young adulthood

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  • Rory Coulter

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Scholars and policy-makers are concerned that young adults’ housing opportunities are becoming more dependent on their family background. This could hinder social mobility and exacerbate inequality. Using data from three cohorts of young people drawn from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study of England and Wales, this study examines how parental attributes in childhood are linked to young adults’ housing outcomes two decades later. The results show that young adults’ housing outcomes have changed considerably over time and are persistently stratified by parental class and tenure in ways that vary by gender. Housing outcomes have become somewhat more polarised by parental tenure over time as the children of renters became relatively less likely to enter homeownership and more likely to rent privately. This suggests that renters became an increasingly ‘marginalised minority’ in the late twentieth century, with consequences for their children’s housing careers and future social inequality.

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  • Rory Coulter, 2018. "Parental background and housing outcomes in young adulthood," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 201-223, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:33:y:2018:i:2:p:201-223
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1208160
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    1. Cody Hochstenbach, 2018. "Spatializing the intergenerational transmission of inequalities: Parental wealth, residential segregation, and urban inequality," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(3), pages 689-708, May.
    2. Suh, Ellie, 2020. "Young British adults’ homeownership circumstances and the role of intergenerational transfers," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 103970, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Kun-Kuang Wu & Chun-Chang Lee & Chih-Min Liang & Wen-Chih Yeh & Zheng Yu, 2020. "Exploring the Factors Influencing Kaohsiung Residents’ Intentions to Choose Age-Friendly Housing," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-21, October.
    4. 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.
    5. Young Jun Choi & Ji Hyun Kim & Yun Young Kim, 2023. "Social Mobility from a Gender Perspective: Dynamics of Mothers’ Roles in Daughters’ Labor Market Performance," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 168(1), pages 119-138, August.
    6. Matel Anna, 2021. "Tenure Status in Life Cycle Cohorts in Poland," Real Estate Management and Valuation, Sciendo, vol. 29(3), pages 1-12, September.

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