YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, housing, and sustainable environment  201 to obtain an adequate mortgage, to the inability to secure a suitable type of housing or to obtain the desired living style both in terms of furnish- ing and location of the home. These points can also be seen from the interviews, which supplement the quantitative data from the Mladina 2020 survey. The interviewees state the following views, among others: “Here’s the thing, an ordinary apartment in a block of flats, I think is 90 or 70 square meters and it’s at least 200,000 Euros. And for that I should save twenty, twenty-five years all together, for an apartment? I find this really stupid… at least it seems to me if I think that my grandparents or parents, who didn’t study and I’m not saying they didn’t work, they worked, but it took them far fewer years to buy an apartment… “ (Alex, 22 years old, member of the Italian minority) “It’s hard to get loans with periodic jobs and at 25 you can’t just save 100 thousand euros to make something easier or invest in something. But I’ll see what I achieve in the next five years. “ (Ester, 25 years old, researcher) The growth in housing prices recorded in the last two decades (see SURS, 2020; Surveying andMapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, 2019) is thus related to the construction of a specific perception of social insta- bility that is related to their employment concerns and amount of finan- cial resources, and are consequently also reflected in the issue of extended stay with parents. About 63% of young people still live permanently with their parents. Despite the slight decline in young people who rely on their parents’ help, the strong trend of relying on partial or greater help from parents in solving the housing problem is still noticeable. Almost 80% of young people from the 2020 survey and about 89% from the 2010 survey expect partial or greater help from their parents in solving their housing problems.