The youth encounter uncertainty not only in their transition into adulthood but also in finding and making a place a home. As their lives are often defined by frequent migration to secure jobs and education, young people face grave obstacles in finding adequate housing, it being temporary or more permanent. A growing number of young adults are consequently either exposed to precarious living arrangements or have to postpone leaving or return to their parents’ home. The current pandemic crisis situation sheds ever more light on the growing challenge of housing the youth and its debilitating effects. Being both more prone to live in overcrowded homes and priced out of the urban housing market, makes a plea for directed action a pressing matter now more than ever. In times when home becomes the entirety of each person’s world, we need to acknowledge it as a prime factor for socialization and autonomy – it shouldn't only be the luckiest of this generation who have the chance to create theirs.

The Dutch digital housing association Qlinker aims to turn traditional housing associations’ procedures upside down in order to serve their tenants in the most customer friendly way possible. In order to achieve this, the Qlinker team started from scratch: no existing organization, no existing IT infrastructure and no legacy systems but instead the tenant as their starting point.

The OECD has just launched its ‘How's Life? - Measuring Well-being’ report for 2020. This is part of an OECD initiative to measure the development and overall quality of life of the inhabitants of its 36 member states, 21 of which are members of the EU.