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SHARED LIVING: A LIFECOURSE PERSPECTIVE

SHARED LIVING: A LIFECOURSE PERSPECTIVE. Sue Heath HSA Annual Conference 2014 The Value of Housing Workshop 2b: Home not housing . Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Shared living in context. 42.8. 7.4. 7.7. 11.4. Shared households = a subset of each of

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SHARED LIVING: A LIFECOURSE PERSPECTIVE

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  1. SHARED LIVING: A LIFECOURSE PERSPECTIVE Sue Heath HSA Annual Conference 2014 The Value of Housing Workshop 2b: Home not housing Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives

  2. Shared living in context 42.8 7.4 7.7 11.4 Shared households = a subset of each of these 3 categories Source: DCLG 2013 Household Interim Projections 2011-2021, April 2013

  3. Shared living in context • In the UK, shared households are most often associated with younger people • In 2011, 15% of men and 9% of women aged 20 to 34 lived in shared housing: 1.5 million people • In 2007, at least 212,000 people lived as lodgers in 172,000 households • believed to have increased hugely post-2008, with changing profile of lodgers and landlords Growing interest in forms of ‘ageing in place’ based on sharing, eg homeshares, senior cohousing

  4. ‘Intentional’ sharing: the rich hinterland

  5. The policy context • Increasing housing costs • Extension of shared accommodation rate to 35 • Rent a room scheme • Bedroom tax • Broader debates re ‘under-occupation’ • And yet… we know very little about shared living arrangements in the UK

  6. ‘Under the same roof: the everyday relational practices of contemporary communal living’ • Our aim: to illuminate the possibilities and limits of different forms of communal living, and to advance understandings of living arrangements involving non-kin across the lifecourse • Four contexts : private lodgings, shared households, small housing co-ops, and cohousing • Four facets: economic, spatial, temporal, ideological • How do these facets variously interact to generate context-specific ‘relational practices’ and with what consequences for the quality of shared living?

  7. Research design • 80 qualitative interviews with sharers (some as individuals, some collectively) • Sub-sample of participants completing either an object inventory/photo elicitation exercise or a time-use/network diary • 22 interviews completed so far, involving 32 individuals. • To date, predominantly older sharers (ie 35+) and female

  8. Housing pathways • ‘Patterns of interaction (practices) concerning house and home, over time and space’ (Clapham, 2005:27) • ‘The continually changing set of relationships and interactions that (a household) experiences over time in its consumption of housing’ (ibid: 27) • ‘Changes in households can involve a different set of social practices as well as the more widely recognised physical changes’ (ibid:29) • Particularly apt in case of shared households and the ‘linked lives’ within them • Individuals v households as central unit of analysis

  9. Shared housing pathways

  10. http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/our-research/home-and-housing/shared-housing//http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/our-research/home-and-housing/shared-housing// Thank you!

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