ABSTRACT
Using Japan as a focus, this chapter explores housing pathway divergence in younger generations in post-growth societies. It begins by introducing the concepts of 'individualisation' and 'familisation' in terms of investigating the diversification of young people's housing trajectories and family formation patterns and then looks at transformations in Japan's family home ownership. The chapter examines an analytical framework of exploring individual-family relations with particular emphasis on the importance of highlighting both parent-child vertical relations and husband-wife horizontal relations within families. It predominantly utilizes the age cohort of 25–34 for the focus of the analysis. In many countries, transformations in the housing conditions of younger cohorts have increasingly been the subject of academic focus. The chapter explores transitions in urban space in relation to young people's diversified housing paths and concludes with examining the implications of changes in young people's housing circumstances for post-growth societies.
