‘Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters

McKee, Kim; Soaita, Adriana Mihaela; Hoolachan, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/02673037.2019.1676400

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“…This paper shows that the 'Generation Rent' experience is not one shared equally by young people. While a number of existing studies have charted the uneven experience socially and spatially through qualitative work [44] [45], this paper contributes a much more detailed quantitative analysis which shows the scale and pace of the changes, and how the incidence varies with poverty status in particular. It makes clear therefore how the rise of private renting has been particularly marked for poorer young adults and their children.…”

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Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018

Bailey

2020

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Over the last two decades, private renting has undergone a major revival in the UK, more than doubling its share within the housing system. Young adults increasingly remain in the sector into their 30s, giving rise to the term 'Generation Rent'. Using data from the UK's Family Resources Survey, this article shows how reliance on the sector varies by poverty status, particularly for young adults and children. In 2017/18, 42 per cent of adults under 40 in low-income poverty lived in private renting, compared with just 26 per cent of non-poor. This is almost double the proportion of 20 years earlier. Private renting is now home to more poor adults under 40 than owner occupation and social renting combined. In addition, one in three children in poverty (36 per cent) now lives in private renting, three times the level of 20 years ago. For both adults and children, rates are even higher in London and the South. Although rates of increase have slowed in recent years, this dramatic shift in the housing circumstances of those in poverty has a number of implications for housing and social policy which have not yet been sufficiently recognised.

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Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018

Bailey

2020

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“…First, the method of photo-elicitation has rarely touched housing studies despite being progressively popular in anthropological and sociological studies since the late 1950s (Collier 1957). Furthermore, bar our work (McKee, Soaita, and Hoolachan 2019;Soaita and McKee 2019), PG photo-elicitation never seems to have been mobilized in telephone interviewing. Demonstrating its power to traverse the distance between participant and researcherand the epistemological implications of thisis a key methodological contribution we make.…”

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Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation

Soaita

McKee

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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Drawing on participant-generated photo-elicitation in telephone interviews conducted with private tenants in Britain, we contribute to a new strand of home literature that engages with the vibrant materiality of things. In particular, the paper reflects on how our innovative methodological approach empowered participants to introduce their own points of view through 'thick' descriptions, revealed previously undocumented home practices and enabled researchers' reflexivity and the co-production of knowledge with participants located miles away. The method powerfully captures home's tangible and intangible materialities and their importance to wellbeing in ways that words-alone interviews cannot. We conclude by introducing the metaphor of 'the fold' and the allegory of 'the invisible tether' to reflect on the methodological benefits and substantive findings enabled by our approach. We argue that housing studies can benefit from engaging photo-elicitation in questions spanning from the abstract to the concrete, and from the inside to the outside of the home. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Social renting has also become increasingly out-of-reach as it has continued its long-term decline under forty years of neoliberalism, a decline which has been exacerbated by the last decade of punitive austerity welfare retrenchment (Cooper and Whyte, 2017;Minton, 2017;Hodkinson, 2019). Rather than being a transitional tenure for young people embarking on their housing careers, the PRS has become their de facto tenure of destination, hence giving rise to the influential notion of 'Generation Rent' (Cole et al, 2016;McKee et al, 2017aMcKee et al, , 2017bMcKee et al, , 2019. This paper critically examines the notion of Generation Rent by focussing on low-income, homeless youth in London in relation to employment and housing precarity.…”

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“…Although Hardgrove et al (2015) note the significance of precarious housing in their analysis of working-class male youth labour market precarity, their housing analysis is limited and tends to focus on family support issues. The second gap relates to how the Generation Rent literature has focused on exclusion from homeownership rather than social housing (McKee et al, 2019). The implicit 'either renting or owning' binary partly reflects how social housing has limited significance in parts of the UK (McKee et al, 2017a).…”

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‘Press-ganged’ Generation Rent: youth homelessness, precarity and poverty in east London

Watt¹

2020

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A bstract This paper examines youth homelessness, precarity and poverty via a critical account of 'Generation Rent'-that young people are living in the private rental sector (PRS) in perpetuity having been locked out of both homeownership and social renting. The paper examines precarity in relation to employment (non-standard contracts) and housing (insecurity and evictions) with reference to in-depth interviews undertaken with 55 young people aged 18-30. This multi-ethnic group of low-income youth were living in temporary accommodation either in East London or in South East England having been displaced there from London. The paper illustrates the interlinkages between employment and housing precarity. The young people experienced the 'low-pay, no-pay cycle' which contributed towards making the expensive London PRS an insecure and unrealistic housing 'option'. Their preferred housing was social renting, but access to this diminished due to austerity-related welfare cutbacks. Despite the young people's wellfounded antipathy towards the PRS, they were increasingly being steered towards this tenure destination by housing officials-a case of coerced, 'press-ganged' Generation Rent.

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‘Generation rent’ and the emotions of private renting: self-worth, status and insecurity amongst low-income renters

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Cited by 95 publications

References 41 publications

Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018

Poverty and the re-growth of private renting in the UK, 1994-2018

Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation

‘Press-ganged’ Generation Rent: youth homelessness, precarity and poverty in east London

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