Nie Chen still remembers the scene when he first arrived in the UK in 2007 and met his mentor.

Ray Forrest, a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences, was surprised by Nie Chen's idea of ​​learning from the British experience to solve the problem of housing security.

　　"Why did you come to the UK to study housing security? It's a mess here." The tutor replied with a smile.

　　Facts have proved that the teacher's words are not all jokes.

To a certain extent, the problem of youth housing has become a common problem in the development of almost all big cities.

　　Four years after graduation, Wang Lin (pseudonym), a post-95 young man, has changed houses four times. Every time he changed houses, it was like opening a blind box. He didn't know what kind of roommates he would meet next, and what kind of housing environment he would meet.

　　She told reporters about a failed rental experience.

At that time, she was just working and had no experience in renting a house. She rented through the long-term rental apartment platform in a relocation housing complex. The house was converted from a two-bedroom to a three-bedroom. She rented in a small bedroom of about 10 square meters.

　　The community is not only far away from the company, but there is no bus station nearby. It takes about an hour to transfer to the bus twice a day.

"What was even more unbearable was the neighbors. The family of three often quarreled. During that time, the disturbed emotions made it difficult to sleep every day, and the whole person was very tired." Later, Wang Lin was forced to move out of the residence, and life returned to normal.

　　In Nie Chen’s survey, more than 20% of young renters have personally experienced at least one irregular leasing experience, including fake housing listings, irregular contracts, non-refundable deposits when due, second landlords, black intermediaries, etc.

　　Similar to Wang Lin, Li Jun (pseudonym) also experienced "ups and downs" in the process of renting a house.

He came to Beijing in 2019 and now works for an Internet company.

After I just moved into a rental house, I found that there was a problem with the door lock of the house, and the indoor Internet speed was also very slow.

So, I found a real estate agent and hoped they could help.

"The rental contract also stated that the intermediary is responsible for the maintenance services, and we also paid a special service fee." Li Jun explained.

　　Faced with Li Jun's normal demand, the real estate agent pushed back and forth, prevaricating him and his roommate on the grounds that the door lock and internet speed were fine.

　　"The intermediary thought we were looking for trouble for nothing, and the words were not pleasant. Seeing the situation, they had to let it go. Since then, I have solved problems by myself and tried not to find an intermediary." Li Jun said.

　　In his opinion, the biggest problem with renting a house is stability. "It's not easy to find a suitable and long-term renter." Wang Lin said that finding a suitable person and a safe way to rent a house is sometimes more important than rent.

　　"The house I'm renting now has already broken my previous budget, but I found that the transportation time and expenses can completely offset the difference in rent prices between the two places." She said, "Whether the rent is expensive or not is a trade-off. I chose a good roommate and The extremely short working hours leave me more energy to do other things.”

　　So, renting a house is so difficult, will there be a phenomenon of "Rent Generation" (Rent Generation) like in the west in our country?

　　According to Nie Chen, the "renting generation" refers to a social phenomenon in which nearly one-third of the "millennials" youth group will rent a house for a long time or even for a lifetime because it is difficult to realize their own housing.

　　Through research, Nie Chen found that within 5 years, the proportion of maintaining the status quo of leasing in Beijing is the highest, reaching 32.04%.

At the same time, the proportion of young people buying commercial housing in Beijing ranks second, accounting for 23.94%; the proportion of young people seeking to rely on the support of the public sector to purchase property-guaranteed housing in Beijing, such as shared property rights, ranks third, accounting for 17.61% .

　　"That is to say, a total of 41.55% of youth groups plan to bid farewell to renting and living in Beijing within five years and seek to realize housing ownership." Nie Chen concluded.

　　Faced with this problem, Li Jun believes that within five years, whether he stays in Beijing or goes to other cities, buying a house will be taken into consideration.

"Currently, there are very few houses in China that can be rented for many years, and the policy environment and social environment do not meet the conditions for renting a house for life." He said.

　　Wang Lin plans to continue renting a house within five years.

"I don't plan to buy a house and I won't stay in Beijing for the rest of my life. I'll find a more comfortable city to live in when I'm about 30 years old. I can also accept lifelong renting," she said.

　　Nie Chen paid attention to the long-term housing situation of the youth rental group and found that more than 60% of the youth group (62.32%) did not accept life-long rental housing, while 37.68% of the youth rental housing group said they could accept life-long rental housing.

Through further research, it is found that youth groups living in public rental housing are more likely to accept life-long renting.

　　According to his analysis, the young people's ability to accept life-long renting is mainly due to the dual impact of the housing market and the job market.

　　At present, the long-term high housing prices in first-tier cities have caused some young people to form the concept that they lack the financial support of their parents and it is difficult to get the down payment for buying a house.

At the same time, the fluctuations in the job market in recent years have also made some young people uncertain about their future income expectations, so they are afraid or unwilling to rely on long-term loans to buy houses.

　　The reason why most young people are unwilling to become the "renting generation" is mainly due to the influence of housing concepts.

"At present, many young people regard paying rent for renting a house as consumption, and they regard purchasing their own houses as repaying loans as asset construction." Nie Chen said that psychologically, most young people think that self-owned houses can bring a sense of belonging , and rental housing is just a transition.

　　Nie Chen reminded that according to the experience of developed western societies, with the dual-track operation of the two major housing systems of self-owned and rented housing, it is very likely that there will be prejudices at the social level that the social recognition of rented housing is low.

　　In his view, under the high housing prices in big cities, there is a lack of active and effective policy intervention, and the rental market is completely allowed to operate freely, and there may be a "rental generation" similar to the West.

　　He believes that in the process of house price rises, young people mainly relied on family intergenerational economic support to cope with house prices, and successively achieved home ownership.

If housing prices in big cities continue to run at a high level, under the background of lack of family economic support, a large number of young people can only enter the rental market, which in turn increases the demand for rental housing, leading to an increase in market-oriented rents. As a result, young people will not only face the problem of not being able to afford a house , It will also increase the rent burden, and even make it difficult to carry out its own asset construction, falling into a vicious circle.

At that time, there may be groups of young people who rent houses for life in big cities.

　　China Youth Daily China Youth Daily reporter Yang Baoguang Source: China Youth Daily