YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, housing, and sustainable environment  219 Based on the above findings, we can make three basic recommendations for policy making: 1. It is necessary to formulate policies that will support to a much greater extent the “practical” implementation of sustainable living forms and lifestyles. For the time being, young people only support the transition to sustainable ways of living on a “declarative level”, but on a practical level their realization does not take place for var- ious reasons. 2. It is necessary to create progressive housing policies aimed at mitigating growing social inequalities, and even more so at miti- gating trends of the degradation of developmental (socio-eco- nomic) ecosystems in individual areas of the country. This is more than just a problem of providing sufficient housing capacity, as it addresses complex solutions of how to create the right relations between stakeholders in certain areas with the help of housing and housing policies that will promote both economic develop- ment and support a high quality of life for a wide range of the population and prevent gentrification processes. 3. The data show that young people’s readiness for international mo- bility decreases with age, which can be both positive and negative. The negative effects of de-internationalization need to be mitigat- ed by formulating policies that will encourage and support the transfer of knowledge, experience, and information from the in- ternational environment to the local space. It is about creating policies of a “new localism” adapted to Slovenia (Mlinar, 2012).