Housing advantage? the role of student renting in the constitution of housing biographies in the United Kingdom

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

“…Students therefore change flats relatively frequently. These experiences train students to become wise consumers of housing (Rugg, Ford, & Burrows, ).…”

“…Students therefore change flats relatively frequently. These experiences train students to become wise consumers of housing (Rugg, Ford, & Burrows, 2004). Chatterton (1999) posits that a process of "unlearning" studenthood in which students gradually distance themselves from student scenes and cultivate personal tastes is also important.…”

The Leisure of Young People in Contemporary Society

“…In southern Europe it remained normal for young people to remain at home with their parents until they married in their late-20s or 30s throughout the post-war decades (see Holdsworth, 2005). The expectation in the north at that time was that eventually the "backward" south would catch-up, but in practice it is the north that has changed and its young people's family and household formation practices have become southern, except that in the north young people still leave their parents' homes earlier to live singly, in shared housing or to cohabit -now a normal prelude or alternative to marriage (see Heath and Kenyon, 2001;Rugg et al, 2004). Youth family and housing careers have become far more complicated than when a couple would leave their parents' homes, marry, start life in their marital home, and both lose their virginity, all within a single day (Leonard, 1980).…”

Living with the parents: the purpose of young graduates’ return to the parental home in England

“…The identification of a 'student housing pathway' in the UK provides a starting-point for exploring graduates' return and coresidence (Ford , Rugg and Burrows 2002;Rugg, Ford and Burrows 2004); characteristics include a planned leaving home for university, multiple returns to the parental home during and after university, a post-university preference for independent living outside a family unit, and an endpoint of home ownership. This pathway, however, lacks detail in the post-graduation phase, with the trajectory to home ownership remaining largely unspecified.…”

“…Despite growing awareness of the phenomenon, little is known about why young graduates return and their experiences when they do. There is a paucity of qualitative research which might unravel the complex dynamics and contexts around young adults' living arrangements (Rugg, Ford and Burrows 2004;Berrington and Stone 2013), and a particular absence of such research into graduates' coresidence. This paper reports upon an in-depth qualitative study of young graduates' coresidence with their parents which addresses this gap.…”