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作者

Meryn Severson;Damian Collins

来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.,Issue

语言

英文

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作者单位

Human Geography Program, EAS, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Human Geography Program, EAS, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

摘要

Today’s young adults enter a housing market substantively different from that of their parents, within a life-course path that is also profoundly changed. However, relatively little research considers how life-course and housing norms are perceived by young adults themselves, including in contexts where these norms are difficult to fulfil, such as Canada. We address this gap from the perspective of young adults in Edmonton, Alberta, drawing on focus groups conducted in 2017. Participants perceived that the transition to adulthood is changing as the housing market is becoming increasingly inaccessible, although homeownership remained an expectation. They recognized that normative life-course scripts had not yet changed to reflect new realities for young adults, producing feelings of in-between-ness. Our findings illustrate how housing provides a critical lens to explore this disjuncture between life-course scripts and life-course realities, as it is fundamentally implicated in both.