Young People, Housing and Social Policy

by Julie Rugg (Editor)

Overview

Presenting up-to-date empirical research on the subject of young people, housing and social policy in contemporary Britain, this book considers the issue of young people's early housing histories in the context of a range of government policy initiatives aimed at the group. It offers a critique of aspects of social policy that specifically address the housing of young people. Topics covered include:
*young people leaving care
*young people in the parental home
*youth homelessness
*housing services for young people
*students in the private rented sector
*young owner occupiers
*housing benefit for the under 25s
*young single parent families
*young people and housing in rural areas
*social housing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134665525
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	546 KB

About the Author

Julie Rugg is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York.

Table of Contents

1 Setting the context: young people, housing and social policy 2 Young adults and owner occupation: a changing goal? 3 Young single people and access to social housing 4 The use and ‘abuse’ of private renting and help with rental costs 5 Students and housing: a testing time? 6 ‘I thought it would be easier’: the early housing careers of young people leaving care 7 Youth homelessness 8 Housing and support services for young people 9 Housing and young single parent families 10 No cardboard boxes, so no problem? Young people and housing in rural areas 11 Young adults living in the parental home: the implications of extended youth transitions for housing and social policy.