YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, housing, and sustainable environment  217 Comparing the data between 2010 and 2020, there is a noticeable increase in the number of tenants compared to higher “family property ownership” in 2010. The shift towards more frequent rental of real estate despite young people’s different housing preferences can be explained by the difficulties young people and their families have in accessing financial resources for the purchase of real estate. 5.3  KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The key findings of this chapter can be summarized in the following points: 1. Despite the still strongly noticeable LAT phase in the context of Slovenia, from the point of view of housing and housing prefer- ences there have been some changes in young people’s value ori- entations, which indicate a gradual change in this trend and a transition to other forms of youth independence and the growing need for a greater degree of internationalization. 2. A comparison of data between 2010 and 2020 shows a strong in- crease in the share of young people who describe housing as a very important personal problem. The data show that a strong emphasis is put on the issue of the financial capability for buying or renting an apartment. 3. Young people’s satisfaction with their existing living conditions is only seemingly high. Young people are satisfied with the material aspects of the existing living conditions in relation to the context of the inability to implement their own housing aspirations. The data reveal a simultaneous feeling of lack of space and housing neglect. 4. Owning apartment or house is anextremely strong value orientation among young people, which is associated with reproduction and with the transfer of long-term housing patterns of Slovenia, which are based on a specific dispersed settlement pattern, a low share of rental housing, and a pronounced local-territorial organization.