- Title
- Housing and Regional Rootedness: Home Ownership beyond the Metropolis
- Creator
- Cook, Julia; Cahill, Helen; Woodman, Dan
- Relation
- Youth beyond the city: Thinking from the margins p. 175-192
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781529212037.ch009
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Housing affordability and declining rates of home ownership among members of the 25–34 age cohort are key concerns for Australian young adults. However, discussion has focused primarily on the challenges associated with urban housing markets, leaving young adults’ experiences of regional and rural housing markets comparatively under-addressed. This chapter focuses on this topic, presenting the findings of a discussion-based workshop conducted with 19 young adults living in a regional part of Tasmania, Australia. It illustrates the complex work that the participants performed in order to remain in a regional area with slim property and labour markets. Drawing on emerging research focusing on immobility and ‘rural stayers’ who remain in or return to rural and regional areas, this chapter contends that choosing to buy into a regional property market can be read as a key element of the complex ongoing mobility decision-making of young people living in regional and rural areas.
- Subject
- housing; home ownership; young adults; rural stayers; immobility
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449635
- Identifier
- uon:43719
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781529212037
- Language
- eng
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