Abstract
Abstract: This paper contributes to research on homelessness and home, focusing on the experiences of young, working class women living in privately rented or social housing in the former coalfields of East Durham in north east England. Although the women had a place to live, they rarely felt “at home” because they lived in the most deprived areas of East Durham, or too far away from family and friends, or in substandard accommodation. The women were denied the “normative values of home” that should be, as Iris Marion Young (1997) argued, accessible to everyone. While most of the women were on a waiting list for social housing, home was experienced in the emotional space of imagining and hoping to move house while living with the frustration of not moving. They often felt homeless. The paper sets the young women's experiences of home(lessness) against a changing housing policy context.
Highlights
This paper has explored the consequences of a shortage of decent social housing for young women living in the former coalfields of East Durham
Once considered a ‘low demand’ area regarding housing, there is a shortage of social housing and statutory homelessness is on the rise (District of Easington 2008)
The women all had a roof over their heads at the time of the research, they often felt homeless at home coping with inadequate accommodation and the difficulty of having little choice regarding where they lived
Summary
Homeless at home in East Durham Abstract This paper contributes to research on homelessness and home focussing on the experiences of young, working class women living in privately rented or social housing in the former coalfields of East Durham in north east England. Whilst most of the women were on a waiting list for social housing, home was experienced in the emotional space of imagining and hoping to move house whilst living with the frustration of not moving. The paper sets the young women's experiences of home(lessness) against a changing housing policy context
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