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Student Housing Choices and Aspirations: Private Renting or Ownership? The Case of Tallinn in Post-socialist Estonia
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Abstract Gaining housing autonomy in ownership-oriented housing systems has been observed as increasingly difficult for contemporary youth, including university students. This article analyses how students make sense of their experiences in private rentals, which is assumed to shape their dispositions and ca... mehr
Gaining housing autonomy in ownership-oriented housing systems has been observed as increasingly difficult for contemporary youth, including university students. This article analyses how students make sense of their experiences in private rentals, which is assumed to shape their dispositions and capacities to act in the housing market in the future. We contribute to the conceptualisation of young people's housing choices and aspirations by offering evidence from the understudied post-socialist context of Tallinn, Estonia. Inspired by Bourdieu's theory of practice and combining in-depth interviews with a survey, we show how the student experience in a weakly regulated private rental market supports their selfperception as established 'players' in the market, while developing a distinct investmentminded disposition to housing. Furthermore, the high symbolic value of homeownership conveyed by families in a 'super homeownership' society has rather strengthened among students, despite restricted opportunities to market entry.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Student; Wohnverhältnisse; Wohnungsmarkt; Eigentumswohnung; Estland; postsozialistisches Land; Wohnwunsch
Klassifikation
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
housing aspirations; private renting; homeownership; post-socialist
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies of Transition States and Societies (2023)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.58036/stss.v0i0.1182
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)