Youth Housing Trajectories: Gender and Intergenerational Solidarity in Greece

The chapter focuses on Southern European housing systems and how they affect young peoples’ housing trajectories, taking Greece as an indicative case to discuss historically shaped geographical variations and converging trends in youth housing transitions, as they are being transformed under neoliberal globalization and consecutive crises. Two particular aspects of housing pathways are highlighted: gender variations and intersectionality, and intergenerational support and dependence. The chapter first provides an outline of the literature on youth housing transitions in Europe, it then focuses on the case of Greece to discuss the effects of the economic crisis and austerity on youth housing, and concludes with thoughts on the need to better understand how gender, labor conditions, cultural expectations, and sexual orientation affect young people’s achievement of personal autonomy and well-being.