ABSTRACT Share housing is changing. Once considered a form of short-term housing and a lifestyle choice for young adults fresh out of the family home, share housing is increasingly playing a broader role into advanced adulthood. Recent work has claimed the emergence of Generation Rent; however, the reconfiguration of housing experiences is illustrated not only by renting but also by an increase in house sharing and the emergence of ‘Generation Share’ within the renting cohort. We know surprisingly little about share housing and its increasingly important role in housing. This paper draws upon exploratory research conducted on share housing in Sydney, Australia, and argues that share housing as traditionally understood is changing. Share housing has a widening demographic and it is driven primarily by economic factors. Despite this, the social affordances offered by share housing are highly valued. Share housing therefore offers us a unique lens into changing housing pathways and values and provokes us to think of ways to produce more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable housing.

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我负担不起在这个城市独自生活，但我喜欢有其他人陪伴：为什么人们在悉尼合租

摘要 共享住房正在发生变化。合租住房曾被视为一种短期住房形式，也是刚走出家门的年轻人的生活方式选择，但随着成年期的发展，合租住房正越来越多地发挥着更广泛的作用。最近的工作声称代租的出现；然而，住房体验的重新配置不仅体现在租房方面，还体现在房屋共享的增加和租房群体中“代际共享”的出现。我们对共享住房及其在住房中日益重要的作用知之甚少。本文借鉴了在澳大利亚悉尼对共享住房进行的探索性研究，并认为传统上理解的共享住房正在发生变化。共享住房的人口不断扩大，主要受经济因素驱动。尽管如此，共享住房提供的社会负担能力受到高度重视。因此，共享住房为我们提供了一个独特的视角来了解不断变化的住房途径和价值，并促使我们思考如何生产更具社会、经济和环境可持续性的住房。