Ebook: Housing Transitions through the Life Course: Aspirations, Needs and Policy

The types of housing that people live in help to shape an individual's access to jobs, health, well-being, and communities. There are also substantial differences between generations regarding the type of housing they aspire to live in, their attitudes to housing costs, the nature of their households, and their attitudes to different tenures. This book is an innovative contribution to the study of housing, drawing upon research from the US, the UK, and Australia to show how lifetime attitudes to housing have changed, with new population dynamics driving the market. It also considers how the global financial crisis has differentially affected housing markets across the globe, with variable impacts on the long term housing transitions of different populations.