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Housing Questions for 13-25 year olds

Answer a few simple questions to tell us what you think about housing. Do you want your own home one day? Are there enough homes? Let us know.

Please only complete this survey is you are over 13 years old and 25 years or under.

Phases

Phases overview
Phase 1: Collecting your answers
Collecting your answers
Phase 2: What you told us
What you told us

What you told us

30 March 2024 00:00 - No end date

Thank you for your contributions. Here is what you told us about housing.

Phase report

This is what young people (13 -25 years old) told us about housing.

Do we need more housing in the area?

Yes

35.6% (26 choices)

I don't know

35.6% (26 choices)

No

28.8% (21 choices)

What stops young people getting housing?

Cost of housing - it is too expensive

91.8% (67 choices)

Poorly paid jobs

63% (46 choices)

Lack of jobs

39.7% (29 choices)

Other

20.5% (15 choices)

Not enough homes

19.2% (14 choices)

Finding other people I want to live with

13.7% (10 choices)

No answer

4.1% (3 choices)

In the next 15 years (when you will be between 28 to 40 years old) would you like to have moved from the home you live in now?

Yes

76.7% (56 choices)

No

13.7% (10 choices)

I don't know

9.6% (7 choices)

What type of home would you like your next home to be?

House

71.2% (52 choices)

Flat (also called an apartment)

23.3% (17 choices)

Maisonette (a building which looks like one house but is actually two flats - one flat on the ground floor and one flat upstairs)

16.4% (12 choices)

No answer

16.4% (12 choices)

Bungalow (a house with no upstairs)

15.1% (11 choices)

Studio (a small flat which has just one room for your bed, sofa and kitchen)

8.2% (6 choices)

Boat

8.2% (6 choices)

Mobile home, caravan or static trailer

8.2% (6 choices)

None of these

6.8% (5 choices)

Thinking about your next home, who would you pay to live there?

I would like to own the home myself and pay a mortgage (a loan from a bank to buy a home)

68.5% (50 choices)

I would like to build my own home

21.9% (16 choices)

No answer

15.1% (11 choices)

I would like to rent a home and pay a landlord

13.7% (10 choices)

Other

11% (8 choices)

I would live for free or pay rent to my family

9.6% (7 choices)

I would like to rent a home a pay a housing association (a housing association rents homes to people on low incomes)

2.7% (2 choices)

Thinking about your next home, who would you like to live with?

I would like to live with a partner

69.9% (51 choices)

I would like to live on my own

32.9% (24 choices)

No answer

17.8% (13 choices)

Other

13.7% (10 choices)

I would like to live with a group of people (who are not my family) in a house or flat share

12.3% (9 choices)

I would like to live with my childhood family (this could be your parents, guardians, grandparents or brothers or sisters)

12.3% (9 choices)