Housing Choices and Issues for Young People in the UK

This review has been written ahead of the forthcoming Housing Reform Green Paper, which will include a focus on the improved provision of housing services and options for young people. The review provides a context for considering the changing nature of young people’s housing transitions in recent decades and highlights some of the most pressing housing-related issues facing young people in the UK today. In particular, it explores: • housing pathways and the changing nature of youth transitions; • young people and housing tenure; • changing patterns of relationship and household formation; • young people, housing and money; • the housing transitions of vulnerable groups; • key policy issues in relation to young people and housing; • futuredirections.