YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, housing, and sustainable environment  205 This is also consistent with the data that show that a large proportion of young people who rated their housing conditions as good or very good mostly notice that both young people and the elderly are disadvantaged when it comes to prosperity (about 64.2 % of young people who are satis- fied and as many as 66.7%who are very satisfied with their living condi- tions think so). The stated position of satisfaction with existing housing conditions with regard to initially limited living capacity is complement- ed by data that show an increase in the lack of private space in the real estate where the individual young person lives. It should also be noted that about 51% of those who stated that they feel a lack of private space live permanently with their parents. This data is in line with the hypoth- esis of hidden collateral effects of “relative satisfaction” with existing housing conditions, as a large proportion of young people (64.9%) state that they feel cramped despite the good or very good housing conditions in which they live. Young people’s satisfaction with their existing living conditions is only seemingly high. Young people are satisfied with the material aspects of their existing living conditions in relation to the context of the inability to implement their own housing aspirations. The data reveal a simultaneous feeling of a lack of space and problems securing financial resources to buy a home. These data are in line with the data on young people’s housing preferenc- es, which are presented in the next section. Namely, the data strongly emphasize the importance of having their own housing as opposed to rented housing, which indicates that young people place their current housing satisfaction within the context of problems marked by the ina- bility to gain quick (short-term) access to their own property.