Leaving home in the Netherlands: Timing and first housing

Successive birth cohorts have left the parental home at an accelerating pace in the early post-war decades in the Netherlands. A second trend, starting later but lasting longer, is that people increasingly leave the parental home to live alone. Both trends have had implications for the housing market as they contributed to the continuation of the housing shortage and generated a shift in the type of accommodation in which young adults start their housing career: an independent rented dwelling, shared accommodation, or home-ownership. In this contribution we set out to unravel both the causes o... Mehr ...