Housing Careers, Intergenerational Support and Family Relations

ISBN-13: 9780367728915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Christian Lennartz; Richard Ronald

Opis

This book explores the increasing role that family support and intergenerational transfers are playing in sustaining the formation of new households and the transition of young adults towards social and economic autonomy. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Housing Studies.

Spis treści

1. Housing careers, intergenerational support and family relations 2. Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe 3. Money or space? Intergenerational transfers in a comparative perspective 4. Parental background and housing outcomes in young adulthood 5. Passing it on: inheritance, coresidence and the influence of parental support on homeownership and housing pathways 6. Parental marital dissolution and the intergenerational transmission of homeownership 7. Siblings, fairness and parental support for housing in the UK 8. Intergenerational support for autonomous living in a post-socialist housing market: homes, meanings and practices 9. The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’

O autorze

Christian Lennartz is a Researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the Netherlands.

Richard Ronald is Professor of Housing, Society and Space in the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.