Our publications - 2019

鈥孎amily sharing - A minimum income standard for people in their 20s living with parents This report considers the minimum needs of households where people in their 20s live with their parents, and also how costs are shared within such households. This has become a far more common way of living than young singles living on their own, and hence fills in a gap in the Minimum Income Standard鈥檚 account of what different households require for a minimum. It identifies substantial savings that parents and their sons and daughters can achieve by living together rather than as separate households, but also some difficult issues about how much it is fair for each of them to contribute to household costs. While the research was able to identify a consensus about how much as a minimum such households require in total, views varied about how much a young adult should pay their parents in 鈥榖oard鈥�, so the research provides examples of the implications of different size board contributions. Hill, K. and Hirsch, D. (2019) 鈥孎amily Sharing 鈥� A minimum income standard for people in their 20s living with parents. 天堂视频: Centre for Research in Social Policy.