ABSTRACT

Shared room housing is a growing private rental submarket, which offers flexible and affordable rental sub-lettings for sharing a bedroom or living room with non-related tenants. However, research exploring the living experiences and home-making practices of shared room tenants is sparse. Drawing on an empirical base of shared room housing experiences in Sydney (online survey n = 103, in-depth interviews n = 35), this paper provides insights on how these residents strive to achieve the material, social and emotional elements of home while dealing with insecure occupancies and maintaining multiplex relations with non-related roommates and housemates. In response to shifting spatial, material and social configurations, home in shared room housing emerges as an ever-changing process of (re)making and unmaking.

摘要

共享房间住房是一个正在增长的私人租赁子市场，它提供灵活且价格合理的租赁子租赁，用于与不相关的租户共享卧室或起居室。但是，探索共享房客的生活经验和家庭实践的研究很少。借鉴悉尼共享房间住房体验的经验基础（在线调查n = 103，深度访谈n = 35），本文提供了有关这些居民在交易时如何努力实现住房的物质，社会和情感元素的见解占用不安全，并与无关的室友和室友保持多重关系。为了适应空间，物质和社会格局的变化，共享房间住房的出现是（再造）和废除的不断变化的过程。