Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15210/23:73620486

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-022-10005-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-022-10005-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-022-10005-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10901-022-10005-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Why so moderate? Understanding millennials’ views on the urban housing affordability crisis in the post-socialist context of the Czech Republic

Original language description

The housing affordability crisis is one of the most pressing issues in urban centres around the globe, affecting especially young adults. Some theorists have in response begun calling for the provision of more public housing or less housing financialisation (free market). The goal of our article is to demonstrate the housing attitudes of Czech millennials towards state interventions that are designed to address the decline in housing affordability, using a quantitative attitude survey and a series of qualitative interviews. The results of our study reveal that young Czechs are sceptical about increased public housing provision as a solution, and on the whole their views align more with the neoliberal ideas, the very ideas that are criticised by critical theorists. We show that there are contextual reasons that explain why young Czechs are not calling for radical policy change - reasons such as familialism, which facilitates the intergenerational transmission of norms, habitus, and resources within families, the legacy of socialism and society transformation, a belief that more redistribution of resources could be unfair, and stronger support for competition, individualism and right-wing politics. There is also, however, some inconsistency and uncertainty in their attitudes, especially between their general worldview and their suggestions for concrete action. This study contributes to the research in the field of youth studies that looks at young people’s strategies for dealing with the problem of decreasing housing affordability, and to the discussions surrounding diverse housing policy responses to a common global challenge.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-07402S" target="_blank" >GA19-07402S: Housing Careers of Millennials: Increasing Tension between Homeownership Normalization and Urban Housing Affordability Crisis in CR</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

ISSN

1566-4910

e-ISSN

1573-7772

Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1601-1617

UT code for WoS article

000909488900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145701798