Young People and Housing: identifying policy challenges and solutions for 2020
Introduction
Over the next 10 years the UK housing market is likely to be characterised by uncertainty and change, creating considerable challenges for policy makers and practitioners. Any changes in the housing market are likely to have a particular impact on the housing options available to young people. Consequently, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation is funding Cardiff University, in collaboration with UK-wide partners, to undertake research that will provide new perspectives on the housing challenges facing young people in the period 2010-2020. The research will deliver essential direction for policy makers and practitioners in the UK. More specifically the research will:
- Explore the likely profiles of the housing system in 2020
- Identify the spatial dimensions of the 2020 UK housing system
- Ascertain young people’s housing aspirations and how they fit with the current housing system and the system likely to exist in 2020
- Assess the extent to which accepted typologies of young people’s housing pathways will be relevant in 2020
- Identify the ‘new’ winners and losers in the 2020 housing system
- Determine how housing policy and practice will need to change in response to patterns of housing need in 2020
Funder
Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Additional Information
With Professor David Clapham and Dr Peter Mackie.