This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase. The general question addresses if and how social inequalities, sharpened by the current housing affordability crisis, affect the process of narrative life course coherence creation (the connection of past, present, and future) in relation to an orientation toward a vision of “the good life.” We furthermore complement the already existing ideal types of the young adult’s relation toward time—confident continuity and cautious contingency (Nielsen A (2019a) Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison. Time & Society 0(0): 1–22)—with two other two types—cautious continuity and total contingency—defined on the basis of our data. We argue that the ability of young adults to envision a coherent future is related to the feeling of secured housing and that the idea of the good life is depicted to a large extent through the ideal of homeownership, although the precarity of the housing market makes homeownership harder to reach for those from unprivileged backgrounds.

本文重点讨论受捷克共和国住房负担能力危机影响的年轻人的left裂习性的主题，并研究这种情况如何影响年轻人与时间结构性生活过程的想象力和生活领域（房屋，家庭）同步的关系， 和工作）。本文基于在房屋和租金价格上涨影响最大的四个城市进行的定性深入访谈。普遍的问题是针对当前“住房负担能力危机”加剧的社会不平等是否以及如何影响叙事过程的连贯性创造过程（过去，现在和未来的联系）生活。” 我们进一步补充已经存在的年轻人与时间的关系的理想类型：自信的连续性和谨慎的偶然性（Nielsen A（2019a）年轻人对未来取向的相交性水平。跨国案例比较。时间与社会0（0）：1– 22）–根据我们的数据定义的其他两种（谨慎连续性和总偶然性）。我们认为，年轻人设想一个连贯的未来的能力与有保障的住房的感觉有关，尽管住房市场的不稳定使住房拥有所有权，但在很大程度上通过理想的房屋所有权来描绘美好生活的想法。那些没有特权的人更难接触到他们。