Property News · May 9, 2018

‘I have sleepless nights’: the looming mental health crisis facing generation rent


One in three millennials will never own their own home, and renters can be evicted with just two months’ notice. What effect is this instability having on young people’s wellbeing?Brett Chapman, a 30-year-old film-maker based in Sheffield, has lived in seven different houses in the past 10 years. “I used to find renting really, really stressful – especially after leaving university,” he says. “You never feel comfortable when you move house every one or two years. You can’t decorate a place to make it a nice place to live.”He is far from alone. Most millennials would need more than two hands to count the number of homes they have lived in since university – one friend of mine has lived in 25 places since she graduated. It is only natural that this perpetual state of instability will have an effect on their wellbeing. “I struggled with depression when I was younger and my living situation was a part of that,” Chapman says. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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