Alasdair Stewart Postgraduate Researcher Young Peoples Tenancy Sustainment Young people disproportionately at risk of not sustaining an independent tenancy over the course of a year SCSH 2007 ID: 556574
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Bourdieu and Young People’s Tenancy Sustainment
Alasdair Stewart
Postgraduate ResearcherSlide2
Young People’s Tenancy Sustainment
Young people disproportionately at risk of not sustaining an independent tenancy over the course of a yearSCSH (2007) 37% of 16 and 17 year olds in Edinburgh and 32% in Glasgow did not sustain their tenancyFor the general population this was 19% and 20% respectivelyHarding (2004)44.9% did not sustain their tenancyGlasgow Housing Association Research (2006)
34% of 18-25 years olds did not sustain their tenancySlide3
New Homeless Orthodoxy“structural factors create the conditions within which homelessness will occur; and
people with personal problems are more vulnerable to these adverse social and economic trends than others; thereforea high concentration of people with personal problems in the homeless population can be explained by their susceptibility to macro-structural forces rather than necessitating an individual explanation of homelessness.”(Fitzpatrick, 2005: 4) Slide4
Developments within the New OrthodoxyFitzpatrick (2005) and critical realism
McNaughton (2008, 2009) and ‘writing agency back in’Slide5
BourdieuGenerative structuralism
[(habitus) (capital)] + field = practice Slide6
The Importance of FieldNomos – vision and division
Art for art’s sakeIs housing a field?Welfare as unique form of fieldSlide7
Net Income After Housing Cost per Week by Hours WorkedSlide8
Division amongst welfare’s subfields and the importance of Capital
Structural imbalance between the symbolic division of age between housing and benefits. Effective over-ruling of housing policy by benefits officer.Denial of benefit eligibility leading to rent arrears and risk of tenancy non-sustainmentSlide9
The Importance of HabitusExperience of homelessness upon perception of tenancy
Stressing non-consciousnessMale / female and job huntingSingle parentsSlide10
ConclusionsNeed to go beyond landlord perspective
If not accounting for continued adversity despite tenancy sustainment there is a risk, as Bottrell (2009: 334) warns, of resilience being comprised and changed from "positive adaptation despite adversity to positive adaptation to adversity". Slide11