YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, housing, and sustainable environment  213 Data on young people’s strong attachment to their “domestic” living environment are supplemented with data on the low readiness of older groups of young people for domestic and transnational mobility. It is particularly surprising that young people’s willingness to move decreases with age. Data on real estate ownership confirm the data related to the high share of private dwellings in Slovenia (see also SURS, 2011–2020), as 80.9% of young people state that their parents live in their own real estate. The picture of this specific living and housing situation is supplemented by data regarding the location of young people’s residences. When asked ‘Do you live in the household of your parents or guardians?’, about 21% of respondents revealed that they do not live or occasionally sleep in the house/apartment of their parents/guardians, and about 14% live with their parents only on weekends or holidays. Despite the fact that a cer- tain share (approximately 35%) of young people spend most of their time in another place or other location due to a different life situation (e.g. schooling), the data still show a strong attachment to their original (local) living environment. Simply put, it seems that young people, de- spite the potential move to a different living environment, dwelling, house, or place of residence, maintain close connection with premises that have similar living characteristics both at the level of identification in regard to local (territorial) frameworks (e.g. place of residence is still located in the home environment despite the change of living environ- ment) and in regard to maintaining living preferences based on the characteristics of the home environment (e.g. popularity of house life, low density etc.). This assumption is also partially confirmed by the data on the forms of household in which young people live in larger cit- ies and in suburban areas.