Department of Sociology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Can Rev Sociol. 2024 Feb;61(1):46-66. doi: 10.1111/cars.12462. Epub 2024 Feb 1.
Housing prices in Canada have increased dramatically, giving rise to a housing affordability crisis. Young adults have been disproportionately affected by this crisis. To cope, many young adults have had to alter their living arrangements, contributing to the diversification of their living arrangements. Young adults' diverse living arrangements are the product of growing inequalities in young adults' economic prospects and access to family support. Extant work has yet to document how young adults' risk of having unaffordable housing varies according to their living arrangements. Our comparison of young adults' risk of having unaffordable housing according to their living arrangements reveals that co-residence with parents, relatives, or roommates reduces young adults' risk of having unaffordable housing. This protective effect is smaller for the foreign-born than the Canadian-born. The National Housing Strategy should allocate more resources to increase the supply of affordable housing earmarked for young adults, particularly the foreign-born who live alone or with children.
加拿大的房价大幅上涨，导致住房可负担能力危机。年轻人受到这场危机的不成比例的影响。为了应对，许多年轻人不得不改变他们的生活安排，导致他们的生活安排多样化。年轻人多样化的生活安排是年轻人经济前景和获得家庭支持方面不平等加剧的结果。现有的研究尚未记录年轻人根据其生活安排而无法负担住房的风险如何变化。我们比较了年轻人根据其生活安排而无法负担住房的风险，发现与父母、亲戚或室友同住会降低年轻人无法负担住房的风险。对于出生在国外的年轻人来说，这种保护作用比出生在加拿大的年轻人要小。国家住房战略应分配更多资源来增加为年轻人提供的经济适用房供应，特别是那些独自生活或与子女一起生活的出生在国外的年轻人。
