Richard Ronald: Moving on from home ownership for ‘Generation Rent

• Richard Ronald is Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam

The inequalities and inequities that housing markets generate have become a cross-national issue in the last decade or so. In NZ, Australia, the UK and the US, discussions of “Generation Rent” have taken centre stage.

Buying a home is now well beyond the capacity of many among the increasingly vulnerable cohorts of younger people. Photo / Doug Sherring