Some questions concerning the so-called “problem of young people and housing”

Abstract

Young people’s difficulties in gaining access to the housing market seem to have reached an extreme point. In fact, the emancipation age has been increasing progressively over the last twenty years, which has had repercussions in family relationships, housing demand, the birth rate and the construction of life paths. To carry out diagnoses and suggest miraculous remedies based upon the average of averages is always a bold and reductionistic resort, especially when dealing with such a heterogeneous group of people integrating multiple casuistries. In spite of all this, the global magnitudes do not offer particularly optimistic indications relating to the insertion of young people within the labour and housing markets.