Urban singles and shared housing

Druţǎ, Oana; Ronald, Richard; Heath, Sue

doi:10.1080/14649365.2021.1987507

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“…Our data was collected before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has impacted house-sharing dynamics and experiences – the shift toward working-from-home being just one example (Druta et al, 2021). Future work could examine mediated house-sharing practices since the emergence of Covid-19, including whether and how the pandemic has influenced how people form and join shared households.…”

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“…The share-house literature offers useful analytical concepts, including a focus on motivations, a negotiated (or contested) sense of social connection, the relationships between private and public spaces, and house-sharers’ identities and meanings of home (Druta et al, 2021). Countering common negative characterisations of house-sharing as chaotic, dysfunctional, inferior to family living, or a merely transitional, youth-centric phenomenon (Heath et al, 2017; Maalsen, 2020; McNamara and Connell, 2007: 75), this literature reconceptualises it as an increasingly mainstream, expanding and demographically diverse practice, one occasionally positioned as ‘desirable’ (Druta and Ronald, 2021: 1233).…”

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“…House-sharing has become increasingly common in developed economies. Contributing factors include declining housing affordability, decreasing home ownership rates, population growth, and changing social norms, including a shift away from living arrangements based on traditional nuclear family structures (Druta et al, 2021; Maalsen, 2020, 2022; McNamara and Connell, 2007; Raynor and Panza, 2021). The process of finding a suitable share-house/new housemate is increasingly mediated by digital technologies and platforms (Maalsen, 2020; Maalsen and Gurran, 2021).…”

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House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses

Podkalicka,

Mundell

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article considers how house-sharing – sharing a home with other, usually unrelated people – is mediated by digital technologies. Drawing on academic literature on house-sharing and self-(re)presentation in digital cultures, interviews with share-house residents in Melbourne, Australia, and user posts in house-sharing groups on Facebook, we identify a sequence of steps and stages integral to the process of (re)forming a share-house in the competitive private rental market. These include advertising, screening, vetting, digital interactions, interviews and house tours. Considering this multi-stage process from the dual perspective of ‘home-seekers’ (applicants) and ‘housemate-seekers’ (existing household), we analyse how both parties deploy representational and communicative strategies, explore the conventions and complexities underpinning these interactions, and present a conceptual framework that explicates the process. The article contributes to scholarly debates about mediated practices of self-(re)presentations, and about house-sharing as a significant practice in a housing market that renders home ownership increasingly unaffordable.

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House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses

Podkalicka,

Mundell

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…On the other hand, couple and family cultures are opening up and heterosexuals are also increasingly searching for novel models of relating, for instance around friendship and roommate relations, although it is also debatable how profound this change is (Jamieson et al, 2006; Roseneil and Budgeon, 2004). Communal living is often approached as a flexible option to suit housing needs in a world where couple relations come and go, and jobs and places of residency change (Druta et al, 2021). However, is it possible to build adult life centred on friendship and roommate relationships, instead of understanding them simply as a recourse for situations where coupledom fails?…”

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“…In contemporary Euro-American societies, living with friends and roommates is understood to be a customary arrangement during the socially diverse and self-seeking time of youth (Kenyon and Heath, 2001: 631–633; Lahad, 2017: 82–87). However, detailed analysis of communal living in various life course positions after youth is still scant, although communal living is increasingly approached as a possible housing arrangement for people of all ages in societies where housing, working life and relationships are all taking on new shapes (Druta et al, 2021; Heath et al, 2018: 3–8). In this paper, I ask how the life course position of adulthood affects personal relationship arrangements, and whether future trajectories can be built on friendship and roommate relations at that point.…”

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Commitments beyond coupledom: Negotiating relational futures in Finnish small-scale communes

Heinonen

2023

Time & Society

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In this paper, I analyze the possibilities for organizing one's personal life around co-residing friendship and roommate relationships in the life course position of adulthood. The normative significance of coupledom and procreation as markers of adulthood has hardly diminished, although the nuclear family model has opened up in past decades in Euro-American countries. I argue that the close connection between coupledom and adult status sidelines communal living as a relational arrangement when persons age beyond the socially shared understanding of youth. Moreover, resisting this temporal order leads communal dwellers into a socially structured negotiation of their future trajectories, where personal autonomy in friendship and roommate relations poses an intra-relational obstacle to building a communal future. The paper is based on 31 interviews with residents of Finnish small-scale communes. Communal dwellers’ negotiations of future trajectories dealt with finding someone to build their life with, whether commitment could be expected in friendship and roommate relations, and whether long-term communal living is compatible with existing housing structures.

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Private renters in shared housing: investigating housing conditions and mental well-being in Australia during COVID-19

Veeroja

Goodall

Guity-Zapata

et al. 2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Lockdowns were the major policy response to COVID-19 containment in many countries, and subsequently many people spent abnormal amounts of time at home. Research has found that housing conditions affected more peoples’ mental health during the COVID-19 crisis than prior to it, and vulnerable groups were especially affected. One group that may be particularly vulnerable is private renters in shared housing. Using a socio-economic lens, our research examined to what extent mental well-being outcomes were associated with housing conditions in shared housing under COVID-19 restrictions in Australia. Data about private renters were obtained from the Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (n = 1908), collected in mid-2020 during the easing of the first lockdown restrictions. Respondents living in shared arrangements reported higher levels of worry and anxiety (8.5–13.2%) and loneliness and isolation (3.7–18.3%) compared to other household types. Binary logistic regressions showed that COVID-19-related mental and financial well-being variables were the main contributors in COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation models. Accumulated housing problems were the only housing condition measure that was significant in the worry/anxiety model. Participants who had more than two people living in a household felt 1.4 times lonelier/isolated compared to those who lived with four or more people. Males and participants who reported good mental health were less likely to feel COVID-19-related worry/anxiety and loneliness/isolation. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of measures for mental health and income during a pandemic and concludes with recommendations of support for shared housing renters during and beyond crisis events.

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Urban singles and shared housing

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses

House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses

Commitments beyond coupledom: Negotiating relational futures in Finnish small-scale communes

Private renters in shared housing: investigating housing conditions and mental well-being in Australia during COVID-19

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