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Leaving home: the housing aspirations of young disabled people
- Author:
- DEAN Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(2), June 2003, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on research exploring the housing experiences and aspirations of young disabled people in Scotland. Thirty disabled people aged 18 to 34 were interviewed. Twenty-one lived with parents and nine independently. Interviewees were asked about their current housing situation, housing career and future housing aspirations. Results found that those who leave the family home in crisis experience several housing moves before settling; those who leave in a planned way tend to stay in their first home. Young people aspiring to leave the parental home are limited to a social housing tenancy, due to their economic circumstances and a lack of knowledge of other choices. Concludes that social care professionals need to pay closer attention to assessing housing aspirations and helping young people consider all options. The research was carried out by the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies Glasgow and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Unaddressed: the housing aspirations of young disabled people in Scotland
- Author:
- DEAN Jo
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report explores the housing careers and aspirations of disabled young people in Scotland, based on interviews with 30 people with learning disabilities and physical disability. It starts by reviewing what is known about the housing careers of young people in the general population, noting that the impact of disability is rarely considered in general studies who distinguish by categories such as gender, ethnicity, educational attainment and family income. Five groups of young people are identified: those satisfied and dissatisfied with living in the parental home, those who left for education, those who left in crisis, and those who left in a planned way for reasons other than education. It is found that moving out of the family home is viewed as a symbol of adulthood and as being about independence and choice. There is an overwhelming reliance on the social rented sector to enable young people to move away from the parental home, and disabled young people do not appear to be accessing specialist housing advice which could widen their options. The paper concludes by suggesting that there is a need for housing education to enable young people to form realistic aspirations and, if they choose to leave the family home, access the most appropriate housing. Introduction There is no sharp distinction between childhood and adulthood.