Young adults’ pathways into homeownership in Tokyo: Shifting practices and meanings
基于东京年轻人的访谈数据，分析他们拥有住房的路径如何因性别角色、代际责任和资产积累不确定性而多样化，揭示年轻人如何适应并挑战住房体系。
This paper examines homeownership pathways of young adults in Tokyo, Japan, making use of an original data set of qualitative interviews. By analyzing the narratives of young adults, the article argues that in contemporary Tokyo homeownership pathways are diversifying, due to changing gender roles within households, intergenerational responsibilities and an increasingly questionable potential of homeownership to result in asset accumulation. Thus, while still following housing pathways that result in homeownership, young people are both adapting to the conditions of a practically failing but politically and ideologically resilient homeownership system and challenging its boundaries.